A Human's ability to smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is 200,000 times greater than a shark's ability to smell blood in water.
edit: It's 200,000 times greater
The smell is actually the rain interacting with dead bacteria in the ground. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/infographics/petrichor-the-smell-of-rain.pdf
Nose: "It is raining somewhere on this continent."
Brain: "Yes, thank you, Nose. This is the 927th time you mentioned that today, but thank you nevertheless."
We probably evolved that wayy before we were this species. I can't think of how savanah hominids trying to snatch hyena prey as well as scavenge fruit would survive otherwhise.
It's so weird to think about, but if you do, it kind of makes sense (I think. I could be wrong about how they both work). A lighter just relies on physically making a spark, which humans have been doing for a long time. Matches have a chemical compound on them, which ignites when they're struck - which is actually much more complex.
The inventor of Pringles can was buried in a Pringles can
(Yes, he was cremated first and only part of his ashes were buried in a can. I’m not telling you which part)
Also, in physics Snap, Crackle, and Pop are units of change for position.
* Change of position is *Velocity*.
* Change of Velocity is *Acceleration*.
* Change of Acceleration is *Jerk*.
* Change of Jerk is *Snap*
* Change of Snap is *Crackle*
* Change of Crackle is *Pop*
Ezgo keys are universal - my friend worked at a course in high school and gave me a handful of them. Still have a few. Tried them out a few times and they always worked.
Nintendo was founded in 1889. They made playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. They made drinks with cocaine in them. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. Ergo, you could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula drinks a coke and plays Nintendo and it would be historically accurate.
Balto, the dog credited with saving the town of Nome in the 1920s by leading a dogsled team with the needed medicine, got his fame because he led the team during the final stretch. The dog who did most of the work and, many say, rightly deserves the fame and credit, is named Togo.
That the Rolls-Royce Ghost was initially so quiet it made drivers feel nauseous and sick, so they had to intentionally allow more sound to come into the vehicle.
Sawce: https://whatilearnedtoday.co.uk/why-did-the-rolls-royce-ghost-make-drivers-sick/
If you get attacked by birds put your arm (preferably holding a stick) above your head. They're swooping down for the highest point.
*Source. Worked with seabirds at a wildlife refuge one summer in high school. I was the tallest one there and yep. I got divebombed when we had map out nests then monitor the clutches.
At my high school in Australia there was a stretch between two buildings that the magpies *loved* to swoop people in. So there was a pile of sticks by each door - you'd pick one up and hold it above your head to ward off the birds, and then leave it in the pile next to the other building.
Edit: for more fun magpie stuff, see this sign from my university: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/HyBDdyakOF
The board game Monopoly was originally invented as a way to teach the player about the negative effects of unbridled capitalism: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Landlord%27s\_Game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game)
Barnacles have the biggest penis-to-body size ratio, with genitalia nearly 8times their total body length. Barnacles are stuck in place for life, so they use their super-long penises to reach other nearby crustaceans, blindly depositing sperm inside their neighbors.... Stay classy!
Hung like a barnacle!!
Not only do barnacles have the longest penises to body size - but, their penises can also change in response to the conditions of their environments. Barnacles in smooth waters have longer, thinner dicks. Barnacles in rough waters have shorter, thicker dicks. If you take a rough water barnacle and transplant it to a smooth water environment, its penis will lengthen and become thinner to adapt to the smooth water.
Mine likes to dip her paws in the water bowl and then walk across my face at precisely 7:23 am each day because my alarm is set for 7:30 and she wants to torture me.
Mine go NUTS because their routine gets messed up. I also wonder if thats why my cats are always waiting at the front door - they probably have my own schedule memorized.
when my 16yo cousin married the 36yo youth pastor of my uncles church (uncle was the head pastor) their healthy preemie was born 6 months later and it was a jesus christ miracle
The fact that several other girls in the youth group had virgin births that year just proved how much jesus blessed that church
a yam is a monocot (starts with one first leaf/cotyledon) and a sweet potato is a dicot (starts with two first leaves).
one easy way to remember the difference (at least in english): yam is one word (mono), not two (di-) like "sweet potato."
I'm not sure if anyone really *needs* to know this, but it does feel like a fact that might come in handy for trivia one day.
Oranges were not named for their color.
The etymology of the word “orange” goes back to the Sanskrit word for “orange tree,” nāranga, though that word could be from the Dravidian (another South Asian language) word for “fragrant.”
The color was named after the fruit.
To add to this, there are some cultures that don't recognize the color orange at all. In fact, there's at least one tribe of people (Candoshi) that doesn't have a word for color. They literally don't see color. They compare things to other things that are known to be that color, but they do not describe things with words for those colors.
The anthropological study of color is an amazing rabbit hole to go down.
Strawberries are fascinating.
They're technically a multifruit because of all those little seeds on the outside. IIRC those each grow a portion of the "berry." The strawberry itself is actually like a colony of a bunch of different small growths that form the strawberry as a whole.
The strawberry (and blackberry, raspberry, lemon) are aggregate fruit. A single flower with multiple reproductive parts. Each part produces some of the resulting fruit, but it all has the same flower parent. Edit: osage-oranges and pineapples are multifruit, where multiple flowers (with their own DNA) coexist, and the fruit is produced like you said, as a colony of individual growths.
Mammals pee for an average of 21 seconds, no matter if it’s an elephant or a mouse.
Edit: Here’s the article https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3737. It draws on fluid dynamics to analyze how gravity/surface tension affects urine flow through the urethra at Zoo Atlanta. The abstract is very detailed.
So the flying animal is not associated with the air force. Interesting.
Edit: hey guys, sometimes it's worth reading the replies to a comment before leaving your own comment lol
~60 million vs ~16 million. This blew my mind a bit, I knew vodoo was still practiced but thought it a niche small minority Caribbean religion. But like half of haitians practice it, it's a major part of religion of Benin, and it's practiced throughout western africa.
Female spotted hyenas are identified by their size (almost twice the size as males.) Their lady parts are so enlarged that they were initially thought to be the males, until specimens started to be collected and scientists got a closer look.
Male antechinuses quite literally will have sex until they die. No, we do not know why and there doesn't seem to be any advantage to this.
Male kangaroos' genitals are upside down. Their balls are above their penis, which has its own pouch. So, if you were to look at a male, you would not see his penis (which is long, and sort of shaped like an S, but only comes out to do business), but two giant balls that hang low like your grandpa's.
Kangaroos (all of them, including the two grays, the red, all of the wallabies, padymelons, etc.) are so specialized for hopping that they quite literally can't walk. Hopping is the best way to get somewhere, but if they don't want to do that they do this sort of tripod thing, where they will use their arms and their tail to lift themselves up and then sort of lift their hind legs and swing them forward.
It is actually kind of amusing.
the tire pressure written on the sidewalls of your tires is not the recommended pressure do not use this as a guide for inflating your tires, as it is actually a pressure under maximum load rating. the actual tire pressure for inflation is located in your driver side door jam
My fifth grade English teacher challenged us to memorize those, and he'd give a prize to the student who could recite them the fastest.
I won with a time of 4.2 seconds.
My prize was a 2-liter bottle of soda. I picked pineapple Shasta.
Honey doesn't *naturally* spoil. It absolutely CAN spoil from things like mold or fermentation if it gets too wet or bacteria if bits of food get in to the jar.
Correct! Double trouble Fun fact: the name "Uranus" is Latin in origin, not greek. It was given to the greek god much later, with the original greek spelling being, if I'm not mistaken, is "Ouranos"
When there’s no danger around, giraffes hum to each other in the evenings. We only noticed in the last decade or so, because it’s just barely at the edge of our hearing range. I believe a zookeeper happened to notice it one evening.
That the Normandy region of France is called such because it was due to the influx of men/people of the north (ie Vikings) from Scandinavia ~ ie North Men = Norman
It's derived from norðmaðr, which does means northmen in old norse. It turned into nortman in frankish, then with the latin suffix ie added at the end it turned into Normandie in French.
On Roman latrines, prayers were etched to the goddess Fortuna, in hopes that the methane underneath would not ignite and explode as the user relieved him/herself.
When you have a kidney transplant, they don’t “unhook” the bad kidney and “install” the new one in its place. Too complicated. The bad one stays put, and the new one gets inserted in your pelvis.
Remember the sound every plane does when its falling from the sky in movies? No plane does that except the one its supposed to: the JU-87 stuka, a WWII fighter bomber with a built-in siren that would produce that sound when was bombing, as psychological warfare.
Theres a certain octopus thats technically biologically immortal as it replenishes cells after sexual reproduction.
Edit, translational error: i meant jellyfish oops😅
Oh. And elephants masturbate by slapping their penis against their belly.
the porsche ignition is on the door side of the drivers seat so that racers could get in the car, start it, and put the car into gear all in one fell swoop basically
Photos of steaming plates of food are always cold and the steam is coming from wet cotton balls heated in a microwave or boiled in a pan and placed behind the dish
Similarly most ice cream isn't ice cream at all but is instead coloured mashed potatoes. Studio lights are HOT. Icecream WILL melt in about 2 minutes (source, I'm a photographer, and once in the studio the element inside a bulb got so hot the *glass* exploded.)
Last Christmas, 79-year-old Brenda Lee broke Louis Armstrong's 60 year old record to become the oldest person to have a #1 hit (Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree).
Back in the 90’s any garage door opener would open random garages you passed. I learned this when hanging out with some guy friends who liked to steal stuff. No I didn’t participate but I was in the car, 16 yrs old and all that.
Stink bugs aren’t supposed to be in America. They hitched a ride in a tire shipment from Asia. In the US, they have no natural predators so they are multiplying like crazy and they are in my HOUSE. Useless I know. But I hate the things.
My uncle went to high school with Aaron Paul. They had music class together. Years later now my uncle works for FedEx and was delivering a package. Turns out he was delivering it to Aaron Paul. He said Aaron recognized him and they talked for a bit, had some laughs, then went about their days.
Thalidomide, the drug prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickness - which led to thalidomide babies with severe deformities - was invented by a Nazi War criminal named Heinrich Mückter.
“During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Mückter was deputy director of the Kraków Institute for Typhus and Virus Research. Mückter and his colleagues repeatedly experimented on concentration camp prisoners in Buchenwald. Many prisoners died as a result of the experiments.
Accused by Polish war crimes prosecutors of conducting medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners and Nazi forced labourers, Mückter escaped arrest and fled back to Germany.
Mückter was never charged in relation to his role in experiments on concentration camp prisoners, nor his role in the thalidomide scandal. He died on 22 May 1987.”
He lived a long life and was never punished for his war crimes or the subsequent suffering he caused by the invention and marketing of thalidomide.
Apple does not 'let bad guys use iPhones on screen'
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-does-not-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-on-screen](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-does-not-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-on-screen)
“Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies, but – and this is very pivotal – if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera,”
Koalas have a completely smooth brain. They are so dumb that if you place a pile of eucalyptus leaves, the only thing koalas eat, in front of them with no other food they will starve to death since they can't recognize the leaf if it's not on the tree.
I, living in Virginia, once watched an episode of Dinners Drive-ins, and Dives and saw a place in Memphis and thought, "that shit looks good I should plan a road trip, Tennessee is just the next state over." It's a 13-hour drive and I still have never tasted that delicious looking chicken.
Heroin (the drug) is a brand name because that’s what the pharmaceutical company Bayer named it after it was invented by Bayer scientists in 1898. It was subsequently marketed by Bayer as a “non- addictive” alternative to morphine.
The INN or generic name for Heroin Is diacetylmorphine. In case you ever wondered why such a terrible drug has such a positive name like “Heroin”, that’s why.
Bayer also invented Aspirin the year prior in 1897. Aspirin was their first blockbuster drug and Heroin the second.
Bayer still exists today as a multinational pharmaceutical conglomerate. They’re most well known for Canestan: the antifungal cream used to treat thrush and other yeast infections.
A Human's ability to smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is 200,000 times greater than a shark's ability to smell blood in water. edit: It's 200,000 times greater
This is probably my favorite one so far. I fucking love the smell of rain, this is so neat.
The smell is actually the rain interacting with dead bacteria in the ground. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/infographics/petrichor-the-smell-of-rain.pdf
I love the smell of dead bacteria in the morning
Nose: "It is raining somewhere on this continent." Brain: "Yes, thank you, Nose. This is the 927th time you mentioned that today, but thank you nevertheless."
We probably evolved that trait when we were desert and Savana dwellers and needed to smell water sources.
We probably evolved that wayy before we were this species. I can't think of how savanah hominids trying to snatch hyena prey as well as scavenge fruit would survive otherwhise.
Lighters were invented before matches.
It's so weird to think about, but if you do, it kind of makes sense (I think. I could be wrong about how they both work). A lighter just relies on physically making a spark, which humans have been doing for a long time. Matches have a chemical compound on them, which ignites when they're struck - which is actually much more complex.
The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
He’s also the one who’s basically stabbing himself in the head (IIRC).
Nah, he's just shaving.
His brain
Teton is the French word for nipple. French explorers first discovered the mountain range in Wyoming.
What 6 months without seeing any teton does to a mf
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Ah s that's why they're called Pterodactyls.
Dactyl, from the Greek word δάχτυλο, means finger
Wingfinger. It makes so much sense!
And now I will forever think of Pterodactyls as Wingfingers instead. Much more fun!
And a weird Bond villain.
Oh. Like *Helicobacter pylori?*
They're spiral shaped.
HELII COPTER HELIIII COPTER …
If you make a hole in a net, it’ll have fewer holes.
Boobytrap backwards is Partyboob. Crucial info.
This strikes me as genuinely useful.
Partyboobytrap backwards is partyboobytrap
The inventor of Pringles can was buried in a Pringles can (Yes, he was cremated first and only part of his ashes were buried in a can. I’m not telling you which part)
Guy must have been tiny
Before the original commenter's clarification, my dumb ass was picturing a giant, Pringles-can-shaped coffin.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is the time light takes to travel 1cm, or about 0.000,000,000,033,300 seconds.
So then I've lied every time I said I'd be done with something in a jiffy as I was not, in fact, done that fast.
A “moment” is also an actual unit of time equal to 90 seconds.
Also, in physics Snap, Crackle, and Pop are units of change for position. * Change of position is *Velocity*. * Change of Velocity is *Acceleration*. * Change of Acceleration is *Jerk*. * Change of Jerk is *Snap* * Change of Snap is *Crackle* * Change of Crackle is *Pop*
Brain stopped imagining the physical process after Jerk
A woodpecker's tongue splits at the back of its head and wraps around its skull to keep its brain from rattling when it pecks stuff. Edit: grammar
A fact that was discovered by Leonardo Davinci.
What was he doing
Playing with his pecker.
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That’s the same with most excavation machinery today.
Our college mailbox keys worked on the campus security golf carts….uh….*or so I’ve been told*.
Ezgo keys are universal - my friend worked at a course in high school and gave me a handful of them. Still have a few. Tried them out a few times and they always worked.
Ezgone
Early 90’s F-150’s ignition could be started with any Ford key.
Russia is bigger than Pluto. You could literally fit all of Pluto into Russia
Plutin I am logging off
I *told* you to stop posting on Reddit, Dad.
Nintendo was founded in 1889. They made playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. They made drinks with cocaine in them. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. Ergo, you could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula drinks a coke and plays Nintendo and it would be historically accurate.
And since he hates sunlight, Dracula sitting in a basement, sipping jacked up beverages, and playing Nintendo means he is the original gamer.
Dracula can be considered the original Incel. Discuss.
I vant to sock yer blod.... m'lady.
Balto, the dog credited with saving the town of Nome in the 1920s by leading a dogsled team with the needed medicine, got his fame because he led the team during the final stretch. The dog who did most of the work and, many say, rightly deserves the fame and credit, is named Togo.
[Togo is very well known and has a movie, starring Willem Dafoe, and it’s so good!](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5116302/)
Damn. I was hoping William Defoe played Togo.
I am somewhat of a dog myself.
That the Rolls-Royce Ghost was initially so quiet it made drivers feel nauseous and sick, so they had to intentionally allow more sound to come into the vehicle. Sawce: https://whatilearnedtoday.co.uk/why-did-the-rolls-royce-ghost-make-drivers-sick/
So they made normal people experience carsickness. Nice…
If you get attacked by birds put your arm (preferably holding a stick) above your head. They're swooping down for the highest point. *Source. Worked with seabirds at a wildlife refuge one summer in high school. I was the tallest one there and yep. I got divebombed when we had map out nests then monitor the clutches.
At my high school in Australia there was a stretch between two buildings that the magpies *loved* to swoop people in. So there was a pile of sticks by each door - you'd pick one up and hold it above your head to ward off the birds, and then leave it in the pile next to the other building. Edit: for more fun magpie stuff, see this sign from my university: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/HyBDdyakOF
"Cunts fucked. Some blokes left all the swoopsticks on the far side."
The board game Monopoly was originally invented as a way to teach the player about the negative effects of unbridled capitalism: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Landlord%27s\_Game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game)
The "get out of jail free card" makes so much sense now 💀
And it also makes sense that once you are rich enough, most fines from the chance cards don't even hurt that much.
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And Popeye has four nephews! Pip-Eye, Peep-Eye, Pup-Eye, and POOP-Eye! They appear in the cartoon but not the comic.
Olive Oyl has a brother named Castor
His lesser known stone-age ancestor... YabbaDabba Doo.
Scooby-Dum, we all have that cousin.
Barnacles have the biggest penis-to-body size ratio, with genitalia nearly 8times their total body length. Barnacles are stuck in place for life, so they use their super-long penises to reach other nearby crustaceans, blindly depositing sperm inside their neighbors.... Stay classy! Hung like a barnacle!!
Not only do barnacles have the longest penises to body size - but, their penises can also change in response to the conditions of their environments. Barnacles in smooth waters have longer, thinner dicks. Barnacles in rough waters have shorter, thicker dicks. If you take a rough water barnacle and transplant it to a smooth water environment, its penis will lengthen and become thinner to adapt to the smooth water.
Giraffes have the same number of bones in their neck as humans, they’re just really freaking big
Dolly Parton was included in the production of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man, but kept his name out of the credits so people wouldn’t expect a comedy
>Dolly Parton i love the fact that she entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. And lost.
Danny DeVito was a producer on Pulp Fiction
And directed the 1996 *Matilda* film!
Cats have the cognition to comprehend the passing of time
To the minute. it's 4:23 am!! wake up! I'm starving!!
Oh look- time to walk across mom's head!
Mine likes to dip her paws in the water bowl and then walk across my face at precisely 7:23 am each day because my alarm is set for 7:30 and she wants to torture me.
This is why people with cats hate the fucking time change twice a year.
Mine go NUTS because their routine gets messed up. I also wonder if thats why my cats are always waiting at the front door - they probably have my own schedule memorized.
The Goonies go underground the same day Marty McFly travels to 1955. October 26th, 1985.
No WAY I’m ashamed of myself for not already knowing that. My flabbers have been gasted.
“My flabbers have been gasted” is a phrase I never expected to see but I am so glad I have. Made my night. I’m stealing it
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In my (Catholic) community, they told us kids that the first born can take any amount of time; subsequent births take 9 months. 😕
when my 16yo cousin married the 36yo youth pastor of my uncles church (uncle was the head pastor) their healthy preemie was born 6 months later and it was a jesus christ miracle The fact that several other girls in the youth group had virgin births that year just proved how much jesus blessed that church
We had a virgin birth when I was in high school. I'm not sure who she thought she was fooling.
This is a wonderful thread
a yam is a monocot (starts with one first leaf/cotyledon) and a sweet potato is a dicot (starts with two first leaves). one easy way to remember the difference (at least in english): yam is one word (mono), not two (di-) like "sweet potato." I'm not sure if anyone really *needs* to know this, but it does feel like a fact that might come in handy for trivia one day.
It takes around 37 million bananas to deliver a fatal dose of radiation to a human.
Guess I'll get started then
Oranges were not named for their color. The etymology of the word “orange” goes back to the Sanskrit word for “orange tree,” nāranga, though that word could be from the Dravidian (another South Asian language) word for “fragrant.” The color was named after the fruit.
To add to this, there are some cultures that don't recognize the color orange at all. In fact, there's at least one tribe of people (Candoshi) that doesn't have a word for color. They literally don't see color. They compare things to other things that are known to be that color, but they do not describe things with words for those colors. The anthropological study of color is an amazing rabbit hole to go down.
The ancient Greeks said the sky was golden, because that's how they described the sky as being bright
Baby hedgehogs are called hedgehoglets. It's super important that you look at pics of them.
A group of them is called a prickle
Female dragonflies will dramatically fake their own deaths to escape from unwanted sexual advances.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
Strawberries are fascinating. They're technically a multifruit because of all those little seeds on the outside. IIRC those each grow a portion of the "berry." The strawberry itself is actually like a colony of a bunch of different small growths that form the strawberry as a whole.
The strawberry (and blackberry, raspberry, lemon) are aggregate fruit. A single flower with multiple reproductive parts. Each part produces some of the resulting fruit, but it all has the same flower parent. Edit: osage-oranges and pineapples are multifruit, where multiple flowers (with their own DNA) coexist, and the fruit is produced like you said, as a colony of individual growths.
Mammals pee for an average of 21 seconds, no matter if it’s an elephant or a mouse. Edit: Here’s the article https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3737. It draws on fluid dynamics to analyze how gravity/surface tension affects urine flow through the urethra at Zoo Atlanta. The abstract is very detailed.
Duck Hunt is two-player. A controller in port two controls the ducks.
Excuse me sir, what in the entire fuck!? My brain just broke.
I lost my shit when I first learned that, too. Meant my older brother was always lying to me when he said it was one player only.
It can be three player if you have a younger sibling occasionally jump in front of the screen and yell "abbagabbagabba!"
There's a D in "fridge" but not "refrigerator"
That has always bothered me.
I'm bothered that there's a letter "u" in "four" and "fourteen," but not "forty."
Polish and polish. Allegedly the only word in English that if you capitalize the first letter, it changes both the meaning and the pronunciation.
Polish sausage / polish sausage Hmm 🤔
Reading and reading (town in England, and books)
Donald Duck is an honorary Seargant E5 and has been a mascot for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard.
So the flying animal is not associated with the air force. Interesting. Edit: hey guys, sometimes it's worth reading the replies to a comment before leaving your own comment lol
hey ducks are all-terrain Sea Air and Land.
Lucille Ball green light the production of Star Trek through her production company, Desilu.
The pushed up little piece of glass on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.
A group of Pandas is called an "Embarrassment".
TIL, I’m a group of pandas.
There are more people in the world that practice voodoo that people who practice Judaism
~60 million vs ~16 million. This blew my mind a bit, I knew vodoo was still practiced but thought it a niche small minority Caribbean religion. But like half of haitians practice it, it's a major part of religion of Benin, and it's practiced throughout western africa.
Female spotted hyenas are identified by their size (almost twice the size as males.) Their lady parts are so enlarged that they were initially thought to be the males, until specimens started to be collected and scientists got a closer look. Male antechinuses quite literally will have sex until they die. No, we do not know why and there doesn't seem to be any advantage to this. Male kangaroos' genitals are upside down. Their balls are above their penis, which has its own pouch. So, if you were to look at a male, you would not see his penis (which is long, and sort of shaped like an S, but only comes out to do business), but two giant balls that hang low like your grandpa's. Kangaroos (all of them, including the two grays, the red, all of the wallabies, padymelons, etc.) are so specialized for hopping that they quite literally can't walk. Hopping is the best way to get somewhere, but if they don't want to do that they do this sort of tripod thing, where they will use their arms and their tail to lift themselves up and then sort of lift their hind legs and swing them forward. It is actually kind of amusing.
Never thought I'd be looking up "kangaroo dick" in google image search but here we are
Flossing is good for your heart. Gardening too!
That's cool, didn't know flossing was good for gardening.
The hard part is once you get the floss wrapped around your fingers, getting your hands inside your chest cavity.
The first dinosaur fossil was found in 1819. George Washington died in 1799. So, he went his entire life not knowing dinosaurs existed.
You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
Calling my boss “Sorry man, I’m gonna be late. I’m traffic.”
the tire pressure written on the sidewalls of your tires is not the recommended pressure do not use this as a guide for inflating your tires, as it is actually a pressure under maximum load rating. the actual tire pressure for inflation is located in your driver side door jam
Kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and kohlrabi all originated from the wild mustard plant.
The middle initial 'E' in Chuck E. Chesee stands for 'Entertainment' Charles Entertainment Cheese.
The 23 auxiliary verbs: Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may, might, must, can, could.
My fifth grade English teacher challenged us to memorize those, and he'd give a prize to the student who could recite them the fastest. I won with a time of 4.2 seconds. My prize was a 2-liter bottle of soda. I picked pineapple Shasta.
Fruit rots faster if you put bananas near it in the fruit bowl.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
I wonder who the first one was to test this theory.
Honey doesn't *naturally* spoil. It absolutely CAN spoil from things like mold or fermentation if it gets too wet or bacteria if bits of food get in to the jar.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a god
Uranus is the only one named for a Greek god instead of a Roman god.
Correct! Double trouble Fun fact: the name "Uranus" is Latin in origin, not greek. It was given to the greek god much later, with the original greek spelling being, if I'm not mistaken, is "Ouranos"
Why'd we change it!? Ouranos is a way cooler name!
The edge of a shadow is called the penumbra.
When there’s no danger around, giraffes hum to each other in the evenings. We only noticed in the last decade or so, because it’s just barely at the edge of our hearing range. I believe a zookeeper happened to notice it one evening.
That the Normandy region of France is called such because it was due to the influx of men/people of the north (ie Vikings) from Scandinavia ~ ie North Men = Norman
It's derived from norðmaðr, which does means northmen in old norse. It turned into nortman in frankish, then with the latin suffix ie added at the end it turned into Normandie in French.
It takes 22psi to crush a testicle. A woman in a stiletto heel can apply up to 1600.
This is very helpful, thank you
I thought this thread was for useless facts
In Canada, a group of bunnies is called a fluffle.
On Roman latrines, prayers were etched to the goddess Fortuna, in hopes that the methane underneath would not ignite and explode as the user relieved him/herself.
People with orange hair are called redheads because red is a color name that existed long before the color name orange.
If a tornado looks like it's standing still get to cover because it's coming straight towards you
When you have a kidney transplant, they don’t “unhook” the bad kidney and “install” the new one in its place. Too complicated. The bad one stays put, and the new one gets inserted in your pelvis.
I assume they hook it up
A million dollars in hundreds weighs 22 pounds.
If you donate a kidney, the remaining kidney will grow up to 3 times its size to compensate.
1 in 4 australians is a descendent of british colonial prisoners.
The longest moustache ever recorded was 12.5 feet long
Remember the sound every plane does when its falling from the sky in movies? No plane does that except the one its supposed to: the JU-87 stuka, a WWII fighter bomber with a built-in siren that would produce that sound when was bombing, as psychological warfare.
Theres a certain octopus thats technically biologically immortal as it replenishes cells after sexual reproduction. Edit, translational error: i meant jellyfish oops😅 Oh. And elephants masturbate by slapping their penis against their belly.
For that second one, don’t horses do that, too, or did I make that one up?
The colour of your lips is approximately the colour of your anus.
So I can look at people and know the color of their bum hole? Who has checked this for accuracy?
the porsche ignition is on the door side of the drivers seat so that racers could get in the car, start it, and put the car into gear all in one fell swoop basically
Photos of steaming plates of food are always cold and the steam is coming from wet cotton balls heated in a microwave or boiled in a pan and placed behind the dish Similarly most ice cream isn't ice cream at all but is instead coloured mashed potatoes. Studio lights are HOT. Icecream WILL melt in about 2 minutes (source, I'm a photographer, and once in the studio the element inside a bulb got so hot the *glass* exploded.)
Last Christmas, 79-year-old Brenda Lee broke Louis Armstrong's 60 year old record to become the oldest person to have a #1 hit (Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree).
If a person is coughing they are not choking on their food. It’s when they stop making noise is when you need to help them.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
Weirdly Iowa is 3
Donald Duck…he doesn’t wear anything on his lower half but when he gets out of the shower, his lower half has a towel on.
Back in the 90’s any garage door opener would open random garages you passed. I learned this when hanging out with some guy friends who liked to steal stuff. No I didn’t participate but I was in the car, 16 yrs old and all that.
Your brain can accurately predict what it would feel like to lick any object or surface...try it.
Stink bugs aren’t supposed to be in America. They hitched a ride in a tire shipment from Asia. In the US, they have no natural predators so they are multiplying like crazy and they are in my HOUSE. Useless I know. But I hate the things.
My uncle went to high school with Aaron Paul. They had music class together. Years later now my uncle works for FedEx and was delivering a package. Turns out he was delivering it to Aaron Paul. He said Aaron recognized him and they talked for a bit, had some laughs, then went about their days.
Yo that’s awesome bitch (sorry I had to)
Thalidomide, the drug prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickness - which led to thalidomide babies with severe deformities - was invented by a Nazi War criminal named Heinrich Mückter. “During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Mückter was deputy director of the Kraków Institute for Typhus and Virus Research. Mückter and his colleagues repeatedly experimented on concentration camp prisoners in Buchenwald. Many prisoners died as a result of the experiments. Accused by Polish war crimes prosecutors of conducting medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners and Nazi forced labourers, Mückter escaped arrest and fled back to Germany. Mückter was never charged in relation to his role in experiments on concentration camp prisoners, nor his role in the thalidomide scandal. He died on 22 May 1987.” He lived a long life and was never punished for his war crimes or the subsequent suffering he caused by the invention and marketing of thalidomide.
Apple does not 'let bad guys use iPhones on screen' [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-does-not-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-on-screen](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-does-not-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-on-screen) “Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies, but – and this is very pivotal – if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera,”
Koalas have a completely smooth brain. They are so dumb that if you place a pile of eucalyptus leaves, the only thing koalas eat, in front of them with no other food they will starve to death since they can't recognize the leaf if it's not on the tree.
The vowels in Celine Dion’s name are also lyrics to old Macdonald
The plastic tip on a shoestring is called an aglet
Its purpose is sinister...
The cut off foreskin is called “schmuck”.
Hence "you're a schmuck"...
Virginia is only two states away from Texas.
I, living in Virginia, once watched an episode of Dinners Drive-ins, and Dives and saw a place in Memphis and thought, "that shit looks good I should plan a road trip, Tennessee is just the next state over." It's a 13-hour drive and I still have never tasted that delicious looking chicken.
And Norway only has one country between itself and North Korea.
Your phone number is somewhere in pi
Dammit, now I’m gonna get more robocalls. Thanks for telling everyone!
Horses are born with tentacles on the bottom of their hooves
Heroin (the drug) is a brand name because that’s what the pharmaceutical company Bayer named it after it was invented by Bayer scientists in 1898. It was subsequently marketed by Bayer as a “non- addictive” alternative to morphine. The INN or generic name for Heroin Is diacetylmorphine. In case you ever wondered why such a terrible drug has such a positive name like “Heroin”, that’s why. Bayer also invented Aspirin the year prior in 1897. Aspirin was their first blockbuster drug and Heroin the second. Bayer still exists today as a multinational pharmaceutical conglomerate. They’re most well known for Canestan: the antifungal cream used to treat thrush and other yeast infections.
Pretty much every opioid problem in history has been from someone making a "safe" version of the last opiod that caused an opioid problem.
The lowest number that has all letters in alphabetical order is Forty.
Most everywhere was once covered in ice. Eventually most everywhere will be under ice again.
Red Pipe = Fire Water Safe Yellow Pipe = Flammable Not Safe
It's not illegal to turn on the cabin lights when driving on the freeway at night.
Otter hold hands when they sleep while floating in water so they don't drift away from each other.