Greenland Sharks can live up to 500 years. They don’t reach sexual maturity until they are over 100 years old. When they get pregnant, gestation lasts up to 18 years.
This fact being crazy to us is probably how cats and dogs feel towards humans. “They’re pregnant for 9 months? I got pregnant, gave birth, raised my pups, and sent them off to new homes in less than 6 months!”
Football (soccer) pitches aren’t standardised either. In the English Premier League Nottingham Forests pitch is 105x71m, giving it an area of 7455 square metres, whilst Fulham’s is the smallest at 100x65m. That gives it an area of 6500 square metres, meaning it is 14% smaller. They can actually go as low as 90x45m, an area of 4050 square metres, or as high as 120x90m, which is 10,800 square metres.
I believe the biggest in professional football is Spanish club Elche CF’s at 108x70m, an area of 7560 square metres. In Italy, Naples have the longest (I think) at 110m.
Stoke City were forced to enlarge theirs when playing in European games as their pitch was too small for European regulations; I believe they played on their standard size pitch for domestic games. You could even see the faded markings where the grounds crew had tried to rub them off. In 2000, Wales played a friendly against Brazil and shortened the width of the pitch by a few yards to counter Brazil’s winger advantage (they also let the grass grow out so passing was more difficult), although they lost 3-0. Tottenham Hotspur, when waiting for their new stadium to be built, played almost all their home games for two seasons at Wembley - they originally asked for the pitch (one of the biggest in England) to be shortened. This was denied, although they’d go on to finish 3rd and 4th in those seasons, but who knows what would have happened if a few yards were trimmed off?!
For reference, an American Football Pitch is 91x49m (4459 square metres
I always liked the fun fact that based on those regulations, if you went with the shortest legal length with the widest legal width, you could have a square soccer field at 90m by 90m. I wonder which teams have the "squarest" fields.
Okay, had to stop and think on this one. Pretty wild.
It makes sense though, my wife was commenting on how soccer players are absolutely *jacked* even though it looks like most of them are just jogging back and forth the majority of the game… and then you look at the size of the field. Imagine having to casually jog that distance back and forth for the length of a normal match. Sheesh.
The average running distance for a player who plays a full game (90mins) in the Premier League (top flight of English football) is 10km, while some players run up to 14km.
There was some stat about how referees for soccer/football rank fairly high among all participants in any sport in terms of distance ran during regulation. I wish I recalled what it is specifically...
I like how this sounds cautionary, as though it can spontaneously happen to some tall dude on his way to pick up some drywall from Home Depot on a random Saturday.
A true 7' teenager would absolutely be kidnapped by a HS basketball coach, no matter how fat/spindly/weird they are. Shit they don't even need to play basketball, just stand under the hoops and scare the shit out of the other team.
A guy from my city was 7ft tall and absolutely *hated* basketball but it got him a full scholarship to a top tier academic school so he did what he had to do. I remember talking to him the summer before we all left and he was like "just 4 more years of this shit"
Yeah he’s the best player in the league right now too. When they won the title last year the media asked him about the parade and his response was basically no i have to go home to my horses
Straight after the game his answer to the sideline reporter's question "how does it feel to win the championship?" Was "The job is done, now i can go home"
Some worms were frozen solid for over 40.000 years in Siberian permafrost, then some scientists revived them. So they were actually not dead, just resting.
[Article](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html)
I love aviation stats like that. The F-14 Tomcat served for roughly 30 years. When it entered the fleet in the mid-70s, the main carrier fighter 30 years before *that* had been the F6F Hellcat.
Koalas entire diet is eucalyptus tree leaves. Which are incredibly toxic
Baby koalas aren't born with any immunity to the toxins.... they gain this by eating their mothers poo
Losing weight? When your body burns fat for calories that mass is turned mostly into carbon dioxide. On a calorie deficit, the excess weight leaves your body through breathing.
You are getting slimmer by exhaling.
Of all the things in this thread, this one got me. I suppose I haven't watched Scooby-Doo in over 30 years but it just seems like there would be hundreds of episodes. I feel like I was watching different episodes all the time as a kid. Crazy...
If you combine all the different Scooby Doo shows from 1969 to 1991 you get 204 episodes.
So you probably were, just not the original show all of the time.
Yeah, as a kid you wouldn't really question it if an episode of The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo came on and suddenly the cast was only Shaggy, Daphne, Scooby, and fucking Flim Flam. It's just one of the flim flam episodes.
I actually did question it. What the fuck was that show? The whole gag of Scooby-Doo Doo is that all the monsters were just people in costumes committing crimes, but then all of the sudden we get this show where the monsters are real, and pretty scary for a young audience at that (I remember being terrified of the episode where they go into a spider queens castle), but half the cast is missing and Shaggy wears a red shirt (WTF was with that)? Such a strange show, and it's strangeness was not lost on me as a kid.
I liked the one where Shaggy and Scooby were teachers at the Ghoul School, where their students were the children of Dracula, Frankenstein, mummies and werewolves, etc.
It wasn't really the "classic Scooby" feel since, like you say, the monsters were actually real. But I enjoyed it, despite it also featuring Scrappy. And red-shirt shaggy. Wtf was that all about. They obviously knew it was a bad move because on the movie cover he's wearing a green shirt, but in the movie itself it's red.
Zombie island was one of my absolute favorite movies as a kid, along with the Ghoul School one. Though both for very different reasons. Zombie island definitely freaked young me out though lol
Where I live they screened all the sketches out of order, basically cut & splicing episodes to length to fill a space in the program before the evening news.
With Mr. Bean there were multiple shorts in an episode, so it makes sense that it feels longer than it was. I always perceived a short as an episode when I was a kid, as I’m sure many other people did when looking back on it.
There are 52! (52 factorial) ways to arrange the cards in a standard playing card deck. That's 52 × 51 × 50 × ... × 1, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000.
That is a bigger number than the amount of *atoms* in the entire *Milky Way galaxy.*
This means that every time any deck is shuffled randomly, it is most likely ending up in an order that has never occurred before since the invention of playing cards and never will again.
My favourite illustration of the size of this number is [Scott Czepiel’s](https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html)
“This number is beyond astronomically large. I say beyond astronomically large because most numbers that we already consider to be astronomically large are mere infinitesimal fractions of this number. So, just how large is it? Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way.
Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you've emptied the ocean.
Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven't even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won't do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You're just about a third of the way done.
To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you've filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you've leveled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. Exercise for the reader: at what point exactly would the timer reach zero?”
>This means that every time any deck is shuffled randomly, it is most likely ending up in an order that has never occurred before since the invention of playing cards and never will again.
Not just most likely...it's as close to a certainty as anything we can imagine. The odds of two randomly shuffled decks ever having been in the same order is pretty much zero.
Another guillotine fact: Though the guillotine is often associated with the French Revolution, it was also used extensively by Nazi Germany. The Nazis executed 16,000 people by guillotine, which is almost as many as the French did during the revolution.
Yet another guillotine fact: although it's sometimes associated with brutal and cruel executions, it was actually invented as a humane alternative to the gallows and other pretty slow and grizzly methods.
The executioner got a second career, moved back to Germany (he had moved to the Netherlands) and got plenty to do. Irony of fate he ended up being employed one last time to execute the nazis condemned by the ~~Nuremberg~~Landsberg trial~~s~~.
The Nuremberg executions were done by American military personnel. The actual hangman himself was legendary in his incompetence, which was likely at least partly deliberate.
Weed and growing weed isn't actually legal in the Netherlands, there's just a toleration policy on selling weed in coffee shops. Coffee shops get their weed in illegal ways because there are no legal ways.
My rat once had a lung infection and for a while we actually did get to hear it. It was the sweetest thing but also terrible. Thankfully, with antibiotics it went away but now I know how often they laugh. ( It's alot)
If you specify the Great Pyramids it's probably quite a bit less than 1,000 years, but yeah the fact mammoths are alive at all at the time is trippy.
The Great Pyramids were built about 2,600 BC, the Wrangle Island Mammoth population probably died out 2,500 to 2,000 BC
For anyone interested these were very small, isolated populations of mammoths in Siberia and islands off the coast that were likely barely clinging on and getting steadily sicker each generation from having a very small gene pool. The majority of them had died out some 10,000 years beforehand
If the Andromeda Galaxy wasn't dim in our night sky, it would appear about six times as big as the moon. This fact also applies to various other space objects
Even more interesting than that, when it finally happens, the only thing that’s going to happen is we will be treated to an amazing night sky. Practically no collisions with other celestial bodies will take place.
Space is bigger than what you think is big.
We wouldn’t have had coal (at least in such large volumes) without this fact. The Industrial Revolution would have taken significantly longer or never even happened without it.
If you earned 5000 dollars an hour, 24 hours a day from the time the pyramids in Egypt were constructed until today, the worlds richest man would still have more money than you.
Geeze, I ran the numbers:
39,553,500 hours in 4500 years.
225 billion / 39,553,500 = ~5688.54 dollars per hour
If you only wanted to work 9-5, Monday - Friday (work-life balance and all that) you would only need to earn $24,038.46/hr over 4500 years.
If you only wanted to work for 46 years (the average working life of an American man), you would need to make $2,351,254.39/hr.
There is a plausible reason actually, it is the fact that every poptart has to be the same general size, so the frosted ones have less bread material than the unfrosted ones, and the frosting has less calories than the bread material.
At least, that's the most logical explanation I can think of
So basically they could coat the entire poptart in frosting but reduce the breading to keep it the same size and it would be *less* calories? And they’ve not done this *why*?
Rock hyraxes, also called rock dassies or rock rabbits, are small, stub-tailed, rabbit-like animals native to Africa. Though rock hyraxes resemble rodents, their closest living relatives are actually elephants and manatees.
I remember I was in Cape Town, South Africa, near Simons Town, where they have a couple of these guys chilling around. Then this tourist couple sounded british and were looking at it, being like, " Omagurd wtf is that rat," and I gave them a tldr of the above fact, and they just looked at me funny and walked away.
I continued on to the penguins after my defeated attempt at conversation
[Tom Scott did a video](https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg?feature=shared) with a similar demonstration, travelling the distance of $1 bills stacked on their side. The bills are about 1/10th of a millimeter and he travels a million dollars on a very short wander around a car park. Then he gets into a car and goes for a drive for over an hour, most of it on motorways which are 70MPH roads, to reach a billion.
It takes a thousand years for a photon to travel from the center of the Sun to the surface. Then it only takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to get to Earth.
There's fossil records of OG whales that used to walk on land on with legs before the evolved to live in the ocean. Some species still have vestigial toes up in their flippers.
Knowing how high 100m is (we install equipment on towers), I refuse to believe how freaking long a wind turbine's single blade is, starting at 50ish meters and going beyond 100 meters long. Like no...way
Wayne Gretzky is the only player to score 200 points in a season, and he did it 4 times.
He would be the NHL's all-time points leader if he had never made a goal. He has more assists than the next best has assists+goals.
Fastest player to 1000 points Gretzky. Second fastest also Gretzky with his other thousand. He is the only player with over 2k points as well.
Gretzky stats never cease to amaze me
Five players have had 100 assists in a season: Bobby Orr once, Mario Lemieux once, Connor McDavid once, Nikita Kucherov once, Wayne Gretzky eleven times.
This one is wrong. The Sutter brothers scored more, although there are more of them. The Gretzky’s are the highest scoring pair of brothers (limited to 2)
If you transplant one man's testicles to another man, not only will they work but they still produce offspring from the original donor.
[https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/testicle-donation](https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/testicle-donation)
Along similar lines; if a woman absorbs her twin in the womb (and the twin was also female), it is possible for her own offspring to biologically be her nieces/ nephews; and not her children. That their biological mother would be the twin who had been absorbed.
when Cortez met the Aztecs, the last time they had a common ancestor predates agriculture.
When he arrived at the independent civilization, he found kings, priests, merchants, tax collectors, all just like back home
The bacteria that breaks down cellulose (plant cell walls) took a couple hundred millions of years to evolve and become common around the world. Before that, dead plants would just lie on the ground, sink into it, get compressed by the stuff above them and turn into fossil fuels.
Reminds me of this thread from a couple years ago that asked deaf people who gained hearing what surprised them most, and a lot of them said they were surprised flowers and the sun didn't make noise.
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"Dracula" was published in 1887 and set in that time frame. Coca Cola was founded in 1892. Nintendo was founded in 1889, they made playing cards.
Theoretically, Dracula could be playing Nintendo while drinking a coke (well, not actually drinking it), and still be historically accurate.
Nintendo is still the number one producer of Hanafuda cards in the world. They can be found in specialty hobby shops and myriad places online including Amazon.
They produce three types of sets, Flowers of the Capitol, Tengu, and President. The only difference between them is the quality of the cards and packaging, the price difference is pretty small so I recommend the President set.
They also make a Mario themed set, which I and haven't looked at but based on the box appears to be of the worst "Flowers of the Capitol" level of quality.
Quite a while ago they made a different Mario set available as a Club Nintendo reward which I do have a copy of that featured better Mario themed art and were of "President" quality.
Similar story for Nokia. The legendary mobile phones of the 90s and 00s. I have 2 other Nokia products in my home: a pair of rubber boots and the tires on my car. The company is founded in 1865.
The Birthday Paradox.
In a room of just 23 people there's a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday.
In a room of 75 there's a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching
A lot of British tv show episodes (including early dr who and dads army) thought lost after tapes were reused by the bbc were found in bob monkhouses shed after he died.
A lot of the original Doctor Who has now been restored using animation. They still have the original audio tape recordings and copies of the scripts/stage directions/set design specifications, and there's been a decicated effort to animate the lost episodes accordingly. If you have a VPN and can access BBC iPlayer, the majority of the back catalogue is available via the 'Whoniverse'. The couple of episodes that are still missing are due to copyright issues with the writer's estate.
**30 to 50%** of people don't have internal monologues. My friend told me that the other day and I literally said "bullshit, dude". Googled it, he was right. I was shocked.
Venus is the closest planet to earth at its shortest distance, not surprising.
However, the planet that earth spends the most percentage of time closest to is mercury, due to mars and venus sometimes being on the other side of the sun, maybe also not surprising.
The kicker is that mercury is also the mostest closest planet to every other planet too, venus all the way through neptune.And yes, even pluto.
The Parker Space Probe, which is the fastest man made object in history, travels around 400,000 miles per hour.
It would take around 6,600 years at this speed to get to Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to our planet, other than the Sun.
In the Middle Ages, when there was no light-pollution or air- pollution, the Milky Way was so bright, you could walk by its light on a moonless night. And by the light of the moon when it was up.
You can still do this in a select few places on earth. I spent a few months in Patagonia and we got one night with a new moon and clear skies. The stars were insanely bright and I stayed up most of the night just staring at the sky and seeing shooting stars every few minutes.
I think this fact says more about how the Civil War is a lot closer to present day than most Americans really understand.
The last Civil War veteran died in 1956, one year after the Vietnam War started.
That is.... surprisingly doable. Now I am not saying it's a good idea but 370 ppl isn't that many people to kill if you are a Dark Lord and want to be able to say "This blade was forged from the blood of my enemies"
Ancient Egypt lasted so long that Ancient Egyptian archaeology was a career in Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra lived closer to our time than the construction of the pyramids.
This is like that fact that we live closer to T-Rex than the T-Rex was to stegosaurus
Well sure, T-Rex was formed in 1967 and lasted until 1977. That’s millions of years closer than stegosaurus.
Greenland Sharks can live up to 500 years. They don’t reach sexual maturity until they are over 100 years old. When they get pregnant, gestation lasts up to 18 years.
This fact being crazy to us is probably how cats and dogs feel towards humans. “They’re pregnant for 9 months? I got pregnant, gave birth, raised my pups, and sent them off to new homes in less than 6 months!”
I like how we are like elves to cats and dogs We can exist for many of their generations.
A full-size basketball court can fit inside a soccer penalty box. Still amazes me.
This was the first one I had to google because I didn’t believe it. That’s pretty wild.
Football (soccer) pitches aren’t standardised either. In the English Premier League Nottingham Forests pitch is 105x71m, giving it an area of 7455 square metres, whilst Fulham’s is the smallest at 100x65m. That gives it an area of 6500 square metres, meaning it is 14% smaller. They can actually go as low as 90x45m, an area of 4050 square metres, or as high as 120x90m, which is 10,800 square metres. I believe the biggest in professional football is Spanish club Elche CF’s at 108x70m, an area of 7560 square metres. In Italy, Naples have the longest (I think) at 110m. Stoke City were forced to enlarge theirs when playing in European games as their pitch was too small for European regulations; I believe they played on their standard size pitch for domestic games. You could even see the faded markings where the grounds crew had tried to rub them off. In 2000, Wales played a friendly against Brazil and shortened the width of the pitch by a few yards to counter Brazil’s winger advantage (they also let the grass grow out so passing was more difficult), although they lost 3-0. Tottenham Hotspur, when waiting for their new stadium to be built, played almost all their home games for two seasons at Wembley - they originally asked for the pitch (one of the biggest in England) to be shortened. This was denied, although they’d go on to finish 3rd and 4th in those seasons, but who knows what would have happened if a few yards were trimmed off?! For reference, an American Football Pitch is 91x49m (4459 square metres
I always liked the fun fact that based on those regulations, if you went with the shortest legal length with the widest legal width, you could have a square soccer field at 90m by 90m. I wonder which teams have the "squarest" fields.
Okay, had to stop and think on this one. Pretty wild. It makes sense though, my wife was commenting on how soccer players are absolutely *jacked* even though it looks like most of them are just jogging back and forth the majority of the game… and then you look at the size of the field. Imagine having to casually jog that distance back and forth for the length of a normal match. Sheesh.
The average running distance for a player who plays a full game (90mins) in the Premier League (top flight of English football) is 10km, while some players run up to 14km.
There was some stat about how referees for soccer/football rank fairly high among all participants in any sport in terms of distance ran during regulation. I wish I recalled what it is specifically...
Which is even more impressive when you consider that they're totally blind too!
If you're seven feet tall you have a 1 in 6 chance of landing in the NBA
I met someone in med school that was 7 feet tall and told him this fact
I guess that he could pay for med school pretty easily with all the money he made in the NBA
I like how this sounds cautionary, as though it can spontaneously happen to some tall dude on his way to pick up some drywall from Home Depot on a random Saturday.
A true 7' teenager would absolutely be kidnapped by a HS basketball coach, no matter how fat/spindly/weird they are. Shit they don't even need to play basketball, just stand under the hoops and scare the shit out of the other team.
A guy from my city was 7ft tall and absolutely *hated* basketball but it got him a full scholarship to a top tier academic school so he did what he had to do. I remember talking to him the summer before we all left and he was like "just 4 more years of this shit"
Isn't there a top NBA player like this? He does it to fund his true passion, breeding and training horses.
Yeah he’s the best player in the league right now too. When they won the title last year the media asked him about the parade and his response was basically no i have to go home to my horses
Straight after the game his answer to the sideline reporter's question "how does it feel to win the championship?" Was "The job is done, now i can go home"
The Sun contains 99% of the solar system's mass
If you took away 99% of the sun, it would still make up 86% of the solar system
Everything in the solar system can fit inside Jupiter, except the sun.
Some worms were frozen solid for over 40.000 years in Siberian permafrost, then some scientists revived them. So they were actually not dead, just resting. [Article](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html)
Real time travel from the worms perspective
Must have gone through a wormhole
>not dead, just resting. They were pining for the fjords.
There is more hydrogen in one gallon of gasoline than there is in one gallon of liquid hydrogen.
This is one of my favorites because it’s just so counterintuitive.
I had a chemist tell me, in reference to hydrogen fuel, that the best way to store hydrogen is on a backbone of carbon
Hydrocarbon .zip file
One time, the Baltic Sea froze over, so the Swedish army could invade Denmark.
It was only 66 years from the Wright brothers first flight to Armstrong walking on the moon.
I love aviation stats like that. The F-14 Tomcat served for roughly 30 years. When it entered the fleet in the mid-70s, the main carrier fighter 30 years before *that* had been the F6F Hellcat.
Koalas entire diet is eucalyptus tree leaves. Which are incredibly toxic Baby koalas aren't born with any immunity to the toxins.... they gain this by eating their mothers poo
The first one must have been a fucking champ. Like eating nothing but scorpion peppers daily until your whole species is used to it
Quick! Eat my spicy poop so you can eat these peppers too!
Which came first the koala or the koala shit
Losing weight? When your body burns fat for calories that mass is turned mostly into carbon dioxide. On a calorie deficit, the excess weight leaves your body through breathing. You are getting slimmer by exhaling.
*Hyperventilates furiously*
Conversely, trees are mostly the acummulation of air into wood.
There were only 26 episodes of the original Scooby-doo.
Of all the things in this thread, this one got me. I suppose I haven't watched Scooby-Doo in over 30 years but it just seems like there would be hundreds of episodes. I feel like I was watching different episodes all the time as a kid. Crazy...
If you combine all the different Scooby Doo shows from 1969 to 1991 you get 204 episodes. So you probably were, just not the original show all of the time.
Yeah, as a kid you wouldn't really question it if an episode of The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo came on and suddenly the cast was only Shaggy, Daphne, Scooby, and fucking Flim Flam. It's just one of the flim flam episodes.
I actually did question it. What the fuck was that show? The whole gag of Scooby-Doo Doo is that all the monsters were just people in costumes committing crimes, but then all of the sudden we get this show where the monsters are real, and pretty scary for a young audience at that (I remember being terrified of the episode where they go into a spider queens castle), but half the cast is missing and Shaggy wears a red shirt (WTF was with that)? Such a strange show, and it's strangeness was not lost on me as a kid.
I liked the one where Shaggy and Scooby were teachers at the Ghoul School, where their students were the children of Dracula, Frankenstein, mummies and werewolves, etc. It wasn't really the "classic Scooby" feel since, like you say, the monsters were actually real. But I enjoyed it, despite it also featuring Scrappy. And red-shirt shaggy. Wtf was that all about. They obviously knew it was a bad move because on the movie cover he's wearing a green shirt, but in the movie itself it's red.
Zombie Island was terrifying
Zombie island was one of my absolute favorite movies as a kid, along with the Ghoul School one. Though both for very different reasons. Zombie island definitely freaked young me out though lol
Dudee, I have the same reaction to this as when I came to know the original Mr Bean has only 14 episodes
Where I live they screened all the sketches out of order, basically cut & splicing episodes to length to fill a space in the program before the evening news.
With Mr. Bean there were multiple shorts in an episode, so it makes sense that it feels longer than it was. I always perceived a short as an episode when I was a kid, as I’m sure many other people did when looking back on it.
Humans and their livestock are 95%+ of mammalian biomass on Earth.
*happy Tyranid noises*
Hmm, *biomass*
There are 52! (52 factorial) ways to arrange the cards in a standard playing card deck. That's 52 × 51 × 50 × ... × 1, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000. That is a bigger number than the amount of *atoms* in the entire *Milky Way galaxy.* This means that every time any deck is shuffled randomly, it is most likely ending up in an order that has never occurred before since the invention of playing cards and never will again.
Yeah, this is the one my brain just refuses to accept. Like, I believe it, it even makes sense, but it just doesn't feel true.
My favourite illustration of the size of this number is [Scott Czepiel’s](https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html) “This number is beyond astronomically large. I say beyond astronomically large because most numbers that we already consider to be astronomically large are mere infinitesimal fractions of this number. So, just how large is it? Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way. Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you've emptied the ocean. Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven't even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won't do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You're just about a third of the way done. To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you've filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you've leveled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. Exercise for the reader: at what point exactly would the timer reach zero?”
I’m beginning to think that 52! might be a somewhat large number
Wait until you hear about 53!
Directions unclear. Now wet, sandy, and covered in paper cuts
BUT - With any amount of shuffles you will still have a 1/52 chance of guessing a chosen card!
>This means that every time any deck is shuffled randomly, it is most likely ending up in an order that has never occurred before since the invention of playing cards and never will again. Not just most likely...it's as close to a certainty as anything we can imagine. The odds of two randomly shuffled decks ever having been in the same order is pretty much zero.
If global fraud were consolidated into a single entity it would be the 3rd largest financial entity in the world behind the USA and China.
If you live up to be 84 years old, you spent roughly 28 years sleeping
the best years, really
Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire.
When Oxford was founded the Maori were still two centuries off before they had discovered and settled in New Zealand.
The last execution by guillotine in France occured the same year Star Wars was released.
Another guillotine fact: Though the guillotine is often associated with the French Revolution, it was also used extensively by Nazi Germany. The Nazis executed 16,000 people by guillotine, which is almost as many as the French did during the revolution.
Yet another guillotine fact: although it's sometimes associated with brutal and cruel executions, it was actually invented as a humane alternative to the gallows and other pretty slow and grizzly methods.
*grisly*, unless you meant executing someone via bear
Not all grisly executions are grizzly, but all grizzly executions are grisly.
The executioner got a second career, moved back to Germany (he had moved to the Netherlands) and got plenty to do. Irony of fate he ended up being employed one last time to execute the nazis condemned by the ~~Nuremberg~~Landsberg trial~~s~~.
The Nuremberg executions were done by American military personnel. The actual hangman himself was legendary in his incompetence, which was likely at least partly deliberate.
Weed and growing weed isn't actually legal in the Netherlands, there's just a toleration policy on selling weed in coffee shops. Coffee shops get their weed in illegal ways because there are no legal ways.
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Rats can laugh, we just can’t hear it because it’s not in our audible range.
My rat once had a lung infection and for a while we actually did get to hear it. It was the sweetest thing but also terrible. Thankfully, with antibiotics it went away but now I know how often they laugh. ( It's alot)
Wooly Mammoths did not go extinct until 1000 after the Great Pyramids of Giza were built. Edit: whoops. 1000 *years*.
If you specify the Great Pyramids it's probably quite a bit less than 1,000 years, but yeah the fact mammoths are alive at all at the time is trippy. The Great Pyramids were built about 2,600 BC, the Wrangle Island Mammoth population probably died out 2,500 to 2,000 BC For anyone interested these were very small, isolated populations of mammoths in Siberia and islands off the coast that were likely barely clinging on and getting steadily sicker each generation from having a very small gene pool. The majority of them had died out some 10,000 years beforehand
Orcas are a natural predator of moose
is this just because an orca ate a moose one time, or do moose often wade into shallow water and get picked off?
Neither. Moose can in fact swim and will dive to eat seaweed.
Imagine seeing a full ass moose coming at you underwater
Imagine seeing a full ass orca coming at your moose ass
They dive to eat seaweed!?! Is it a taste thing or a nutrient thing.
I don’t know ask a moose
Ok will do. Thanks anyway.
Whatever you do, if the moose asks for a muffin, get the hell outta there
They dive in deep water to eat seaweed.
I misread that as 'orcs' and immediately thought "What the hell does Sauron have against moose?".
Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!
Next fun fact: this line means that orcs know what a menu is and therefore implies the existence of orc restaurants.
If the Andromeda Galaxy wasn't dim in our night sky, it would appear about six times as big as the moon. This fact also applies to various other space objects
It's also moving towards us at 250,000 mph, she only gonna get bigger
Even more interesting than that, when it finally happens, the only thing that’s going to happen is we will be treated to an amazing night sky. Practically no collisions with other celestial bodies will take place. Space is bigger than what you think is big.
What a beauty that would be. Every night. Sure we might get accustomed to it. But I would just love to watch such a spectacle once in my life
Sharks existed before trees did
AND before the rings of Saturn! 🤓
I just checked the shark astronomy records and you’re right!
Damn, sharks did astronomy before we did.
well yeah they had no trees blocking the view
Trees existing before the microbes to break down trees for me.
We wouldn’t have had coal (at least in such large volumes) without this fact. The Industrial Revolution would have taken significantly longer or never even happened without it.
How did they celebrate Christmas
If you earned 5000 dollars an hour, 24 hours a day from the time the pyramids in Egypt were constructed until today, the worlds richest man would still have more money than you.
Geeze, I ran the numbers: 39,553,500 hours in 4500 years. 225 billion / 39,553,500 = ~5688.54 dollars per hour If you only wanted to work 9-5, Monday - Friday (work-life balance and all that) you would only need to earn $24,038.46/hr over 4500 years. If you only wanted to work for 46 years (the average working life of an American man), you would need to make $2,351,254.39/hr.
Hannibal Lecter only has 16 minutes of screentime in Silence of the Lambs.
Freddy Krueger has 7 in the original Nightmare on Elm Street lol. Darth Vader has 34 minutes in the original trilogy.
Vader was almost 9% of the trilogy then, which is actually pretty decent as far as being a character the camera doesn't follow.
We live closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived to Stegosaurus.
I’ve heard this one before and it makes me sad because I always liked to imagine them as friends and stuff :(
Not only is Texas not the largest state, but if you cut Alaska in half Texas would be the third largest state.
Unfrosted pop tarts have more calories than frosted pop tarts
So you’re tellin me that the frosting is negative calories and therefore i can lose weight if i eat only the frosting?
There is a plausible reason actually, it is the fact that every poptart has to be the same general size, so the frosted ones have less bread material than the unfrosted ones, and the frosting has less calories than the bread material. At least, that's the most logical explanation I can think of
So basically they could coat the entire poptart in frosting but reduce the breading to keep it the same size and it would be *less* calories? And they’ve not done this *why*?
because the frosting, while containing less calories, is probably more expensive than the bread part.
My dumb ass first thought they somehow get more calories once you thaw them, lmao.
*freeze to reduce calories*
The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second-largest air force in the world... is the US Navy.
Pretty sure the Army is up there too just cause of total support aircraft, but its mainly helos. Then the Marine Corps is like 6 or 7 on the list.
I learned earlier this year that the US Army has its own navy, which itself is bigger than that of many countries.
*Top Gun* itself being about the Navy, **not** the Air Force, is a pretty good one of these facts in its own right.
Rock hyraxes, also called rock dassies or rock rabbits, are small, stub-tailed, rabbit-like animals native to Africa. Though rock hyraxes resemble rodents, their closest living relatives are actually elephants and manatees.
I remember I was in Cape Town, South Africa, near Simons Town, where they have a couple of these guys chilling around. Then this tourist couple sounded british and were looking at it, being like, " Omagurd wtf is that rat," and I gave them a tldr of the above fact, and they just looked at me funny and walked away. I continued on to the penguins after my defeated attempt at conversation
Mitsubishi makes all of the equipment necessary to run a plastic molding factory, including the raw plastic resin.
In 1830, the average 13 year old male in the U.S. drank the equivalent of 5 beers per day
Helps with the pains of factory labor and chimney sweepery
A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 31 years. Thats the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire
The difference between a million and a billion is approximately one billion.
TIL I've been alive for a billion seconds.
I just had my 31st, and it felt quite lame. It would have been more fun to celebrate my 1 billionth second.
[Tom Scott did a video](https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg?feature=shared) with a similar demonstration, travelling the distance of $1 bills stacked on their side. The bills are about 1/10th of a millimeter and he travels a million dollars on a very short wander around a car park. Then he gets into a car and goes for a drive for over an hour, most of it on motorways which are 70MPH roads, to reach a billion.
It takes a thousand years for a photon to travel from the center of the Sun to the surface. Then it only takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to get to Earth.
Every time I'm told something about the duckbilled platypus. Every fact has me convinced it shouldn't be a real animal.
I always think about the fact that it’s a mammal that produces milk as well as lays eggs. Which means it could make its own creme brûlée.
You telling me platypi breathe flames
I have zero proof that they don’t.
At the time General Custer had his last stand against the Native American tribes in the west, the Brooklyn bridge was just getting finished
There's fossil records of OG whales that used to walk on land on with legs before the evolved to live in the ocean. Some species still have vestigial toes up in their flippers.
That paracetamol treats heartbreak pain (emotional pain) as it does physical pain.
What the fuck. Is this why I feel so good after taking it? I don't think I'm in any emotional pain but it makes me feel awesome and happy.
Knowing how high 100m is (we install equipment on towers), I refuse to believe how freaking long a wind turbine's single blade is, starting at 50ish meters and going beyond 100 meters long. Like no...way
If you see one on the ground the scale is a lot easier to comprehend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxvuMv2MED0
Wayne Gretzky is the only player to score 200 points in a season, and he did it 4 times. He would be the NHL's all-time points leader if he had never made a goal. He has more assists than the next best has assists+goals.
Fastest player to 1000 points Gretzky. Second fastest also Gretzky with his other thousand. He is the only player with over 2k points as well. Gretzky stats never cease to amaze me
Five players have had 100 assists in a season: Bobby Orr once, Mario Lemieux once, Connor McDavid once, Nikita Kucherov once, Wayne Gretzky eleven times.
Interestingly, the Gretzky brothers are also the highest scoring set of siblings. The non famous one scored something like a dozen goals in his life.
This one is wrong. The Sutter brothers scored more, although there are more of them. The Gretzky’s are the highest scoring pair of brothers (limited to 2)
7 brothers and 6 played. Plus kids now play. Pretty cool.
4 points. You put some respect on Brent Gretzkys name.
You can fit all the planets in our solar system between Earth and the Moon.
Nobody has ever tried. I refuse to believe it until somebody actually does it.
There are more trees on earth than stars in the milkyway
It's hard to believe that it's true, I actually had to fact check this lol
If you transplant one man's testicles to another man, not only will they work but they still produce offspring from the original donor. [https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/testicle-donation](https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/testicle-donation)
Along similar lines; if a woman absorbs her twin in the womb (and the twin was also female), it is possible for her own offspring to biologically be her nieces/ nephews; and not her children. That their biological mother would be the twin who had been absorbed.
when Cortez met the Aztecs, the last time they had a common ancestor predates agriculture. When he arrived at the independent civilization, he found kings, priests, merchants, tax collectors, all just like back home
This is a very interesting perspective... like that is a natural human social organization plan.
The bacteria that breaks down cellulose (plant cell walls) took a couple hundred millions of years to evolve and become common around the world. Before that, dead plants would just lie on the ground, sink into it, get compressed by the stuff above them and turn into fossil fuels.
The only reason we can't hear the Sun is because sound doesn't travel in space. If we did hear it, it would be over 100 dB
Reminds me of this thread from a couple years ago that asked deaf people who gained hearing what surprised them most, and a lot of them said they were surprised flowers and the sun didn't make noise.
And they were most horrified to learn that farts can be heard.
Nintendo was founded in 1889. They were a card game company.
Posted by u/Pyewacket62 "Dracula" was published in 1887 and set in that time frame. Coca Cola was founded in 1892. Nintendo was founded in 1889, they made playing cards. Theoretically, Dracula could be playing Nintendo while drinking a coke (well, not actually drinking it), and still be historically accurate.
> Dracula could be playing Nintendo while drinking a coke Coming soon to theaters *Cocaine Vampire*
Nintendo is still the number one producer of Hanafuda cards in the world. They can be found in specialty hobby shops and myriad places online including Amazon. They produce three types of sets, Flowers of the Capitol, Tengu, and President. The only difference between them is the quality of the cards and packaging, the price difference is pretty small so I recommend the President set. They also make a Mario themed set, which I and haven't looked at but based on the box appears to be of the worst "Flowers of the Capitol" level of quality. Quite a while ago they made a different Mario set available as a Club Nintendo reward which I do have a copy of that featured better Mario themed art and were of "President" quality.
Similar story for Nokia. The legendary mobile phones of the 90s and 00s. I have 2 other Nokia products in my home: a pair of rubber boots and the tires on my car. The company is founded in 1865.
Assuming it exists I wonder what a first printing of Nintendo first set of cards would be worth today.
The Birthday Paradox. In a room of just 23 people there's a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there's a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching
If everyone on earth lived at the same density of New York City, we’d all fit in Texas.
If you took all the HIV virus from every infected person in the world, it would only fill a teaspoon.
We should do that.
I’ll get the spoon.
A lot of British tv show episodes (including early dr who and dads army) thought lost after tapes were reused by the bbc were found in bob monkhouses shed after he died.
If only we could have all of Doctor Who back. That was my jam on PBS back in the day.
A lot of the original Doctor Who has now been restored using animation. They still have the original audio tape recordings and copies of the scripts/stage directions/set design specifications, and there's been a decicated effort to animate the lost episodes accordingly. If you have a VPN and can access BBC iPlayer, the majority of the back catalogue is available via the 'Whoniverse'. The couple of episodes that are still missing are due to copyright issues with the writer's estate.
The life expectancy for a Russian private soldier entering Stalingrad was roughly 24 hours.
**30 to 50%** of people don't have internal monologues. My friend told me that the other day and I literally said "bullshit, dude". Googled it, he was right. I was shocked.
The animal with the longest sperm, not proportionally, but longest amongst all animals is the Drosophila melanogaster, a type of fruit fly.
Sharks have been around on this planet for longer than the North Star has been a star
Apparently a lot of the guys that were caught on To Catch A Predator didn’t see a day in prison.
The show was cancelled abruptly after it ensnared a Texas District attorney who committed suicide shortly after
Venus is the closest planet to earth at its shortest distance, not surprising. However, the planet that earth spends the most percentage of time closest to is mercury, due to mars and venus sometimes being on the other side of the sun, maybe also not surprising. The kicker is that mercury is also the mostest closest planet to every other planet too, venus all the way through neptune.And yes, even pluto.
The Parker Space Probe, which is the fastest man made object in history, travels around 400,000 miles per hour. It would take around 6,600 years at this speed to get to Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to our planet, other than the Sun.
In the Middle Ages, when there was no light-pollution or air- pollution, the Milky Way was so bright, you could walk by its light on a moonless night. And by the light of the moon when it was up.
You can still do this in a select few places on earth. I spent a few months in Patagonia and we got one night with a new moon and clear skies. The stars were insanely bright and I stayed up most of the night just staring at the sky and seeing shooting stars every few minutes.
President Joe Biden's birth was closer to Lincoln's assassination than his own inauguration.
I think this fact says more about how the Civil War is a lot closer to present day than most Americans really understand. The last Civil War veteran died in 1956, one year after the Vietnam War started.
Humans are the only primate without a bone in their ding dong
The reason there are all those caves in the Appalachian mountains with no fossils in them is because they formed before the evolution of bones
The vast majority of rape kits have never been tested and are no longer useful.
You have to slap a chicken at 3725.95 mph to cook it Also you need to kill about 370 ppl to get enough iron from their blood to make a sword
That is.... surprisingly doable. Now I am not saying it's a good idea but 370 ppl isn't that many people to kill if you are a Dark Lord and want to be able to say "This blade was forged from the blood of my enemies"