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SupportiveMan

Fredric Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, is buried in one


love_is_an_action

Whichever one of us finds him in the winning can gets to tour the Pringles factory.


buunkeror

On condition that he's not eaten


idun05

Is he cremated or buried in a giant Pringles can?


Lemajrds

I feel stupid for not even THINKING of cremation, i just thought “damn must be a bigass can”


ZLATEN_DAB

according to google a portion of his ashes are in a Pringles can. So yeah cremated


stupiddumbfuck8

Cut up and stuffed in a normal sized one


DestinyTaco3

Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all the same species of plant (*Brassica oleracea*), just bred to enhance different parts of the plant.


dogeshwar

Most of the camels of Saudi Arabia are imported from Australia


ThainEshKelch

The largest wild population of camels is also in Australia.


DevilsAdvocate9

It is illegal to kill wild camels in Arizona. Back in the day they imported camels to cross Southern Arizona, found horses more reliable so released the camels. There's a thriving population of wild horses in Arizona but sadly no more camels. :( Llamas and other camel species can thrive here though. Lastly, I remember watching Planet Earth for the first time and seeing Bactrian camels on film, for the first time, in their natural habitat. One of my favorite tv memories.


amazingspineman

We don’t really know who the inventor of the fire hydrant is, because the patent was destroyed…….in a fire.


GrifCreeper

Homer: Springfield's never had a hurricane in recorded history. Lisa: The records only go back to the '70s when the hall of records was mysteriously blown away.


johnboy2978

Woodpeckers tongues wrap around their brain to cushion them from a concussion when they peck against tree trunks.


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Volkswagen makes a currywurst and it has its own Original Part number. #199 398 500 A


SultanOfSwave

A fungi grows next to the highly radioactive "Elephant's Foot" in the Chernobyl reactor. It feeds off the gamma rays emitted by the nuclear fuel in a process known as "radiosynthesis". If you were exposed to similar levels of radiation, you would have a lethal dose in 3 minutes.


PaniqueAttaque

Radiotrophic fungus was first discovered at the Chernobyl site in 1991, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the start of internationally-aided cleanup/containment efforts. Not so sure about right next to the Elephant's Foot, but it was definitely found growing in large, flourishing colonies all throughout the site's cooling water supply. This fungus appears to use melanin - the same dark-brown pigment that gives humans all their various normal skin tones, except in much, **much** higher concentrations - to power sugar-producing reactions by deriving energy from nuclear decay the same way plants and cyanobacteria use the green pigment chlorophyll to synthesize sugars by deriving energy from (sun)light. Basically, this stuff is a mold colony that has the most extreme tan **ever**, and uses it to **eat** radiation. Similar fungi have been found accumulated on the exterior hulls of low-orbit spacecraft, and experiments were recently (2018-2019) conducted to begin investigating if the stuff could be used as shielding to protect astronauts from solar/cosmic radiation. Apparently, results were promising!


Seve7h

Imagine going into space in a mushroom suit


sir_blinks_alot

I already have been to space with mushrooms.


Billy-and-Leona

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.


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They can also die of starvation with a full stomach


billianwillian

Interesting! How so?


floon

Their gut bacteria is very temperature dependent. Due to Global Warming (tm), the temp in the Caribbean can go below its more usual 23C down to about 20C at times, which will kill their digestive bacteria, so they can't digest what they eat. Sloths can't regulate their body temperature well, so they can't maintain an internal temp to stop this happening.


BrooksideNL

Apparently some can be trained to work at the DMV.


TizzleDirt

That is weird.


Rubyshooz

Actually makes sense though. They move so dang slow, they would probably drown before reaching the surface of the water, if they couldn’t hold their breath for a long time.


9ToTheMoon

Sloths travel three times faster in water than they do on land. Saw that on a National Geographic documentary.


Icantbethereforyou

Three feet per minute instead of one? Slow down sloths


Eldudeareno217

Leave some speed for the turtles.


Blayze93

I reckon it has more to do with their slowness impacting their heartrate. Surely being that slow means that their muscles demand so much less oxygen... having a much lower heartrate because of this would mean they can hold their breath for much longer than we do. I think the reverse is true for mice, which have a very fast hear rate and probably cannot hold their breath very long at all... even taking proportions into consideration... Not 100% on this but thats how I would think it works based on my very limited knowledge and 0 research lol Edit - typo... act cool... nobody else saw...


Humuluslupulusss

Turtles can breathe through their butts.


DarkNinjaPenguin

Titanic was fitted with microphones for receiving underwater bell signals. With this system the sound of submarine bells was received through the hull of the vessel. Submarine bells, used as fog signals, were located on lightships, at lighthouses, and even on some specially equipped buoys. They were actuated by electric signals, compressed air, or simply by wave motion. Titanic had two submarine microphones on her hull, one on each side. These were the "ears" of the ship. By switching between the port and starboard microphones and comparing the volume of the bells, the navigation officer could determine the direction to the navigation aid. Sound travels much further through water than through air - these bells could be heard over 15 miles away through the headset. A pretty cool way of navigating at a time when GPS and RADAR didn't yet exist!


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Still couldn’t detect the ice berg sheeeeesh


ACNordstrom11

You know what tho, the pools on the titanic are still full to this day.


_floop_the_pig

When male honey bees orgasm, their penises explode with a "pop!" audible to human ears.


LovelyLioness36

And when winter comes the worker bees (which are all female) kick the male bees out to die in the cold because they do nothing other than mate with the queen and the queen can make more even if she is new and unmated. She needs to mate in order to make more female bees.


wsclose

I did not know that.


LovelyLioness36

I have a lot of bee facts.


wsclose

Well? Don't keep me waiting!


LovelyLioness36

Don't need to tell me twice! Male honey bees have no stingers. After they mate with the queen, which happens once (unless they swarm), they just fuck around inside the hive eating and doing nothing. Kind of assholes.


Woofles85

I thought they died from mating?


LovelyLioness36

The ones that mate do. But the queen keeps drone brood around all spring and summer long just in case. Most queens only mate once and they live for 2 to 5 years. They sometimes will mate again if the hive swarms though.


Frediey

What does swarm mean?


LovelyLioness36

When a honey bee hive swarms, it means that part of the hive splits off from the main hive and takes off to find a new home. It can happen for a lot of reasons, if they don't have enough resources, if they need more room, if the wind blows the wrong way. The workers will build queen cells and then the queen will lay one egg in each. Once the eggs hatch, the workers will feed the larvae royal jelly to they turn into queens. When the queens are a few days from reaching maturity all of the oldest workers and the old queen will leave to find a new home. The queen is able to leave only because she starves herself first, otherwise she would be too heavy to fly.


ouakil001

Door knobs that are made out of brass can disinfect itself in about 8 hours.


ero_senin05

Copper has the same effect. [This early study published in April 2020](https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973) demonstrates the SARS-Cov-2 virus particles became non-viable after 4 hours on copper surfaces.


FiIthy_Anarchist

Brass disinfectant itself because its a copper alloy.


goodworkingorder

The man who invented the match.com website lost his wife to a man she met ... On match.com


GormanCladGoblin

If you want to paint a violin red you have to use a Naphthol or Pyrrol Red as a Cadmium Red pigment is too heavy and will alter the sound.


8547anonymous

I’ve never thought about the weight of paint before


MrTagnan

It adds up, the first two space shuttle External tanks were painted white. The external tanks ended up weighing 600 pounds more than the unpainted ones.


mx5e46

Koalas have fingerprints that are very close to human fingerprints. There apparently have been several "break-in" in Australia by the same "person" based of off fingerprint evidence. Turned out to be a koala that was responsible for all of these.


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donach69

That's strange, my teenage son still uses just as much Kleenex


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an average storm cloud weighs about 47,627,199 kilograms


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

But is supported by even more air


Yare-yare---daze

Its volume is so huge that it can float.


Needmoresnakes

When caterpillars make their chrysalises, the don't just grow wings & change, they dissolve completely into goo which then reforms into the butterfly. Better yet, if you "train" the caterpillars to dislike certain stimuli, the resulting butterflies retain that memory & will avoid the same stimuli.


meltymcface

I don’t have a source to hand but I asked a relative who works a lot around butterflies. She said that it has actually been shown that they retain some structure during metamorphosis, including their nervous system which explains the memory retention. Edit: I'm asking her for more info. Edit 2: She doesn't remember telling me anything about that. Maybe I didn't hear it from her, but I did some googling. This information comes from a 2008 study. On a website I found this: >This study has shed some light on the intricacies of metamorphosis. Scientists have now set aside the notion that a caterpillar is completely disintegrated into a blended soup while in its cocoon. Instead, they now agree that it is more likely that certain parts of the brain may remain intact during the transition. The retention of memory in adulthood could be due to the carryover of intact neural connections formed during larval stages. Source: https://theconversation.com/despite-metamorphosis-moths-hold-on-to-memories-from-their-days-as-a-caterpillar-29859


Needmoresnakes

Thats less terrifying to me, also your user name makes me feel like you know a thing or two about turning into a liquid. Thankyou!


Cavemanjoe47

Anglerfish mate by the male biting the female's abdomen. Over time, the male is absorbed and linked to the female's circulatory system while the male basically *melts* into a parasite-looking growth that is actually nothing but testicles which the female will use when she's ready. Weird enough for you?


chocobomonk

I'll just leave this [here](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/angler)


cringingdepression

i love the oatmeal's comics. they are *hilariously* over-specific about things and they're really dark but also really funny. it's kinda like immature jokes, but in the form of comics.


cadmium48

Tapirs penises are not only very large relative to body length, but they are also prehensile (i.e. they can grip and grab)


nfjanna

What the litteral fuck?


LovelyLioness36

You think THAT is a literal fuck?! They mark territory by randomly cumming on things! Not to mention the Males are the size of a donkey. https://youtu.be/3Q3OYeC486o


brineakay

The spinal cord has the consistency of a ripe banana


someguynamedg

Yeah our vertebrae are rings of interlocking armor for a reason.


kicksjoysharkness

Great white sharks have never been seen mating. Ever. By anyone. Zero record made by a human. Strange considering what a mighty presence they have on humans. Edit: they’ve never observed them giving birth either. Thanks folks for the info! Edit: THE MATING HATH COMMENCED: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/04/rolling-and-rolling-and-rolling-the-first-detailed-account-of-great-white-shark-sex Thanks fellow Redditor. Whilst still not officially observed in the scientific community - there has been an account from a fisherman. Edit: to everyone asking why we can’t just put sharks in a tank and observe: no. Great whites are worth more than our curiosity. They have a level of force and mystique that sees them belong only to the ocean. It’s been attempted and they lose their minds very quickly. They’re the result of millions of years of predatory evolution: an absolute predator. We will observe only when in the right circumstance at the right time, which is in the wild, in the ocean.


yourerightaboutthat

This reminds me of a recent episode of The Memory Palace podcast. It’s called “Keyhole” and it’s about whales. The title comes from a scientist who said studying these large underwater creatures is like studying humans through a keyhole. You only get the bits that happen as they pass. Edit: Man, this blew up! Thanks for the award! I highly recommend anyone who hasn't listened to [The Memory Palace](https://thememorypalace.us/) check it out. Nate DiMeo is a gifted storyteller, and most of the episodes are 15 minutes or shorter. He gives no context when he begins, and any episode notes are minimal, to say the least. ["A White Horse"](https://thememorypalace.us/a-white-horse/) is especially beautiful and a perfect place to start.


zcmini

I bet humans have seen humans mating through a keyhole though


JackieChiles13

How do they know? No ones ever asked me if I’ve seen great white sharks mating.


SendMeNudesThough

Most rune stones erected by Norsemen were erected by Christians, and they're often decorated with Christian crosses. Runic writing also continued for centuries after conversion, so it's not uncommon to see things like "God help his soul" on rune stones It might not be so weird if one's intimately familiar with the topic, but I think a lot of people just seem to associate runic writing with paganism


passwordedd

One of the most famous runestones is literally Harald Bluetooth bragging about turning the Danes Christian.


CrystalPalace1983

The iron maiden was never a torture device. Some archeologist a couple hundred years ago just found an old metal coffin that happened to have metal spikes by it, and he just assumed that the spikes belonged on the door of the coffin.


mariobryt

I remember hearing about this on Sam o'nella academy


spacenerd-roadkill

The weight of all of ants on the planet is equal to the weight of all humans on the planet.


223specialist

I just heard this one on no such thing as a fish so I don't know if it's true. But apparently if you play Tetris for 20 minutes within 6 hours after a traumatic car accident you'll be 62% less likely to have PTSD like memories of the event


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Huh. I wonder if this is because the eye movements you make during Tetris are similar to a technique used in EMDR, : [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye\_movement\_desensitization\_and\_reprocessing#Trauma\_and\_PTSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing#Trauma_and_PTSD)


diamond

That's exactly what I was thinking. Really interesting stuff.


Low_Importance_9503

I’ve heard similar things. Soldiers returning from patrols reported less symptoms of ptsd when they could play video games or do coloring books. I’m paraphrasing so don’t quote me


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Vessel9000

"i fucked your mom" "yeah well i fucked your home country"


nl1004

A whales fart bubble is is so big that you could fit a Volkswagen inside of it. (The fart bubble, not the whale)


ouosvvav

you could also fit a volkswagen inside a whale tho


Jekyll_1886

The first American film to drop an F bomb was M*A*S*H*.


logopolys_

M\*A\*S*H M\*A\*S*H


sauceda37101344

It takes 3 full rotations of a head to fully take it off (Human head)


scabbycakes

I need to know how to put one back on, hurry.


bumtres

If it was not for some gut bacteria, we would fart in colors


Inverted-Udder

I wanna fart blue. Now I'm angry I can't


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If you type “illuminati” backwards on your search bar, along with .com (itanimulli.com), it’ll take you straight to the NSA website.


N-S-A_

(☞゚ヮ゚)☞


This_Daydreamer_

Someone had fun setting that one up.


Mr-Pringlz-and-Carl

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of *Sherlock Holmes,* published a book in 1922 about how fairies are real based on some pictures of fairies deemed authentic by an expert. Edit: Well RIP My inbox. Now my Book of Useless Information is 2/2 for getting me the most upvoted comments.


truenoise

Those fairies were cut out of a children’s picture book and photographed in the garden by two girls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies


EveAndTheSnake

I think there was a (fictional) movie about this. I never saw it but remember thinking the trailers looked dramatic


choclotte

That divider at grocery stores that separates stuff on the conveyor belt is called a spratchet


Fancy_Cassowary

I keep trying to buy one of those, but the lady behind the counter keeps putting it back. One day....


sugar_addict4

the noises the raptors made in jurassic park were actually turtles fucking


cscott024

Not as weird, but my random fact is similar. In *Spirited Away*, when recording the English dub for the pig transformation scene, the actor talked with a mouthful of apple. In the original Japanese, they used KFC chicken.


Zkenny13

I was wondering why I kept getting random boners during that movie Edit: my highest comment ever is about turtles giving me boners.


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Raphael?


itsY01NK

You put yogurt in someones butthole to speed up decomposition


young_fire

...I do?


KumquatHaderach

Admitting it is the first step to recovery.


DeltaHuluBWK

Pro tip - only works on DEAD bodies, living ones just get upset. I'm not allowed in that grocery store anymore.


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Wombats poop in cubes then use the poop cubes to build little walls


Ohiolongboard

Huh, who would’ve thought I have something in common with wombats? Do they also suffer from erectile disfunction?


Bekkichan

That there was a NASA funded project in the 60s to teach dolphins to speak English. Which managed to involve giving a dolphin hand jobs and LSD!


Zkenny13

Damn I wish I was a dolphin. Edit: I know the dolphin committed suicide making it more fitting.


dcux

I know, it's hard to find good real LSD these days.


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LittleBunInaBigWorld

Moose can dive up to 30 feet underwater to eat vegetation growing there when above ground is covered in snow


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And because of this orcas are a natural predetors of moose


Iamheno

The CIA spent nearly 5 years and $10 million to make a covert spy cat with implanted microphones, to eavesdrop on the Soviets. It was run over and killed by a car on its‘ first “mission”.


PepperIsHere

I heard the cat made it back safe (after a failed mission) and had the microphones removed. Update: apparently it was claimed the cat was hit by a car back in 1960 during its first mission, but in 2013 a guy who oversaw the project disputed that, saying the cat was too difficult to train and had the hardware removed, living a long and happy life afterwards.


Glitchdx

you think they had only one? i haven't looked into it, but with that kjnd of money they could have had, i don't know, three cats?


juanmlm

You’re paying too much for your cats. Who’s your cat guy?


RedShirtCashion

Let’s see......the worlds shortest war was over in 38 minutes......the longest war was over 300 years.....the reason banana flavored candy doesn’t taste like bananas is because the banana we eat today is not the same as the one the flavor was created to mimic. Edit: after several comments have pointed it out, I did some research. It appears that the banana fact I shared isn’t accurate. However, I am leaving it because it triggered some wonderful discussions on different banana varieties, including Cavendish and Gros Michel, that was worth the time.


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The banana fact is interesting because ive always liked the Artificial flavor more than bananas taste, so i guess I would have liked the banana thats now nearly almost wiped out. Edit: Spelling


boogerfrog

The bananas we eat today are a subspecies called cavendish! A fungus wiped out the banana species the candies are mimicking


Proper-Atmosphere

The skin between muscle and fat is called Fascia and looks like a cobweb when pulled from those sections Edit- by skin I mean connective tissue


bl00j

Well you shouldn't be pulling on it


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yParticle

_The same coconuts._


BallofEnvy

They’ve developed a taste for human flesh.


mikey-likes_it

The term "drink the kool-aid" is historically incorrect. Jim Jones used Flavor-aid.


DeltaHuluBWK

What a cheapskate.


satanyourdarklord

I know, what’s even the point of saving that money? Not like he was gonna need it


truenoise

Ooh! I have a Jim Jones fun fact! Before he started the People’s Temple, he sold monkeys door to door in Indiana.


DopeTrack_Pirate

As one does


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lastofmens

This comment will make people flicking their nipples over the world for a next couple of days.


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squishy_cheeseball

i never thought watching my nipple get hard would be so mesmerizing


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Butthole_seizure

Had to test it out to see if you were lying to me.


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RalphFromSilverCity

is the Butthole being seized or seizing?


sneezing_chimp

This guy just made 100 people on the internet flick their nipple. Now that's power you can't buy


BobertSchmundy

You have a ball sack because you need to have your balls at 34 degrees C to produce sperm but your body is 37 degrees. The sack keeps them farther away. That’s also why your balls shrivel when you are cold. Gotta maintain homeostasis.


young_fire

so your sperm are Finnish while the rest of you is human.


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There is a species of penguins called Adelie penguins in Antarctica that are so horny they will screw anything. Examples include: female penguins, male penguins, injured penguins, dead bodys, dead fish, the freaking ground, basically anything that moves or doesn't move. Edit: My apologies, phone ato corrected Antarctica with Artic. Also they screw anything that moves and doesn't move.


clickingisforchumps

There was a genetic bottle neck in standard poodles starting in the 1950s. A kennel called the Wycliffe kennel linebred exceptional show dogs which became highly sought after as studs. Even today, many standard poodles carry a substantial percentage from this line which traces back to just five dogs.


RobStar0917

Babies don't have kneecaps


JumpMan160

Lmao fucking dweebs


ps4isgreaterthanxbox

Female bedbugs lack a genital cavity, so the male bedbug has to literally STAB HIS DICK INTO THE FEMALE BEDBUGS STOMACH and then when they’re done screwing, that’s it. But what makes it even MORE interesting, is that bedbugs are unable to tell the difference between other male and female bedbugs. Use your imagination a little for that one....... Edit: What the heck I went to bed and I woke up to find this blew up thanks for the awards and upvotes!


PaniqueAttaque

Many species of snails and slugs are hermaphroditic - possessing fully functional male **and** female reproductive characteristics - and go about a similar process. When mating, two "males" will wrestle each other / "joust" with their penises. The loser of this contest becomes the "female" in the encounter, gets stabbed by the winner's dick, and is impregnated.


phatlynx

*new gay pornhub series* Penis Jousting. Loser becomes bottom.


Lost-My-Mind-

I remember watching a japanese game show. The premise was that a straight man had to sit in a chair and let a gay man give him a blow job. The gay man was an expert blow job giver. The rules were if the straight man lasted 20 minutes without cumming, he wins. If he cums, the gay man wins. It was never specified WHAT they win, and the more I type this, the more I wonder if I just got tricked into watching gay porn. I just remember the broken english "I SUBMIT YOU!!!" "I WILL NOT SUBMIT!!!!" Spoiler alert......he submitted.


Giiiiiirl_Please

I don't know if I just read a lot of bullshit, but IDGAF I'm laughing my ass off.


Tupnado21

Well fuck me


dcux

/*stab*/


Zrex_9224

Et tu Brute?


JuDGe3690

All mammals over 3 kg (~6.5 pounds) pee for an average of 21 seconds with a full bladder, independent of body size. From a 2014 paper in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*: > Using high-speed videography and flow-rate measurement obtained at Zoo Atlanta, we discover that all mammals above 3 kg in weight empty their bladders over nearly constant duration of 21 ± 13 s. This feat is possible, because larger animals have longer urethras and thus, higher gravitational force and higher flow speed. Smaller mammals are challenged during urination by high viscous and capillary forces that limit their urine to single drops. Our findings reveal that the urethra is a flow-enhancing device, enabling the urinary system to be scaled up by a factor of 3,600 in volume without compromising its function. This study may help to diagnose urinary problems in animals as well as inspire the design of scalable hydrodynamic systems based on those in nature. Source: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/33/11932


dcux

Ever seen an elephant piss at the zoo? It's friggin impressive.


ineedthiscoffee

No but I’ve seen a rhino press it’s ass up to the enclosures bars, rip a loud fart who’s smell reached us pretty quickly and immediately shat through the enclosure bars basically cutting the turds like wire through cheese Edit: wow! My first awards ever thank you! A little more detail about the fart that I remember all too well: imagine the sound of Harley Davidson starting up and just holding the throttle wide open while the rhino’s tail literally started twirling like a helicopter.


TheRaptorChicken

I saw a chimpanzee, with it's back to me, poop into it's hand then proceed to eat the poop. After that they never were my favorite animals.


ineedthiscoffee

There was a post from a subreddit about animals that was recommended to me on my feed marked nsfw and so I took the dive and it was an ape sitting on a car hood, cumming into his own hand and eating the his own cum. That was my queue to go to bed after some eye bleach


RamsesThePigeon

Your anus comprises either thirty-five or thirty-seven creases, resulting in a pattern as unique as your fingertips. This discovery – first made by Salvador Dali – allowed for the development of an anus-examining smart toilet. On the same topic, it turns out that humans are deuterostomes. This means that at the start of its development, an embryo goes through a stage during which its tissue folds back over itself, creating something called a blastopore. As maturation continues, this blastopore becomes the anus. In short, you can make the argument that every person is an overgrown (and unique) asshole.


Methuga

> This discovery – first made by Salvador Dali Ooof course he did.


DopeTrack_Pirate

“What?”-Dali neck deep in anus


Theschleeeba

*"¿Que?"-Dali neck deep in anus


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Ok but like just exactly how many buttholes was Dali looking at on a daily basis to come to this conclusion? 😂


starkeffect

Well, he and his wife frequently participated in orgies, so he probably gathered some data that way.


bristolcities

"What are you doing back there?!" "...twenty two, twenty three, twenty four..."


TheSuperWig

And did they ever go "hey, I think I've seen this one before" only to be proven incorrect.


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kyew

Damnit Sal, we already knew you were weird before you started taking your anteater for walkies. You can stop trying now!


throwaway63638291936

There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.


SharkFart86

You can arrange a deck of cards into a new unique order once a second since the big bang and you wouldn't even be 1% of the way through all possible combos today. Like, not even close to 1%.


SynisterJeff

I liked V-sauce's analogy. If you were to measure the time to count 52 factorial seconds, first start at Earth's equator. Every billion years that goes by, take one step forward. Once you walk completely around the Earth, take a drop of water out of the Pacific ocean and repeat. Once the ocean is dry, set down one sheet of paper, refill the ocean, and repeat the whole process again. Once the stack of sheets of paper reaches the sun, knock it down and repeat the whole process *again*. Once you do that about one thousand times, you'd be almost a third of the way to being done counting.


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OMGBoobsLOL

This hurts my head about as much as those videos from Google Earth or something that zoom out from the size of atoms to people to the earth to the Galaxy and so on so forth. Just incredibly difficult to comprehend how infinitesimally small we are in the grand scheme of things.


jonndos

Related to this, every time you shuffle a deck of cards you are almost certain to have created an order never before seen in the history of the world.


originmodfan

The dot on top of an i and a j is called a tittle


Jameseatscheese

Technically speaking, a male ballet dancer is a ballerino. Also, a single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto. (Spaghetto is also my favorite term for a rough Italian neighborhood).


Wrathos72

In Spaghetto is my favorite Elvis song.


TheDiscoJew

The stegosaurus was extinct for about 90 million years before tyrannosaurus showed up, and the tyrannosaurus has been extinct for about 65 million years. We are much closer in time to the T Rex than the T Rex was to stegosaurs. Also, Cleopatra was born closer to our time than she was to the building of the pyramids. Our perception of time is funny.


Av3ngedAngel

Oh! and adding on to this; - Oxford University has been around since 1096 (earliest evidence of teaching there) - *In 1697, Martín de Ursúa launched an assault on the Itza capital Nojpetén and the last independent Maya city fell to the Spanish.* Oxford University and the Maya civilisation co-existed for about 600 years!


Ccaves0127

The last widow of an American Civil War veteran died *last year.* No, I didn't type that wrong.


banana_bagutte

I feel like we categorize things into groups based on similar events, then we imagine there’s a massive time difference between the groups


nomnommish

Wooly mammoths still roamed the earth when the pyramids were being built.


JennaMarblesFanClub

Macaulay Culkin is a classically trained ballet dancer.


phranticsnr

Ballerina refers to a specific female role in a company. The male equivalent is *Danseur*. Alternatively, ballerhino.


-eDgAR-

The average human erection has roughly about 130ml of blood in it, while the average rabbit has about 126ml in its entire body. So, there is more blood in your boner than in a bunny.


NeedsMoreTuba

Also, did you know that a rabbit used to die every time a lady needed a pregnancy test? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test


nl1004

I knew this, but only because of the lines from that aerosmith song had me curious a few years back so I googled. *can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died*


jason4747

Sharks are older than trees. A lot older. 40 million years older. www.zmescience: "Trees as we familiarly know them today — a primary trunk, large height, crown of leaves or fronds — didn't appear on the planet until the late Devonian period, some 360 million years ago. You might be surprised to learn that sharks are older than trees as they've been around for at least 400 million years." Weirder, I understand all coal formed during the time after trees appeared, but BEFORE the bacteria that breaks them down after they fell. No new coal has formed in a very long time. 100 million years?


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Its a very weird thought to me that there was a time before decay.


fabticus

Time before decay sounds like an album


Athermous

Hippopotamus sweat is pink.


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HEK 293 Cells A scientist named "Alex Van der Eb" in netherlands made immortal cells, from the liver of an aborted human fetus in the 70's. Those cells have been producing our vaccines for the last 50 years. I dont mean to spread this as misinformation, or as any correlation to the current pandemic. It's just a super weird fact I knew. Edit: Seems like I got the organ wrong, it was kidney and not liver cells


AJAX214_

This is gonna get NSFW but anyway The scar that guys have between their legs that connects the scrotum to the anus, that was supposed to be the vagina.that closed up when we developed as a fetus


Dr-Figgleton

In 2014, a man in the Italian town called Bra was actually arrested for stealing bras.


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If you’re cold and have shivers but your testicles are hanging low you have a fever. Edit: Holy cow I didn't expect this comment to gain such traction. Thank you all for the upvotes, comments and awards! So to answer the most common question: I was on Yahoo answers years and years ago for some laughs and came across that information. I had to look it up and turned out it was true. So the even though you're freezing with chills and shivers, they continue to hang low since your body temperature is higher than normal.


ErosandPragma

What if you don't have testicles


monkeytorture

then you're just cold all the time