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When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.
If you took a horse's large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.
If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you
jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.
Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a funeral and burial and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service.
Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more "marriageable."
I actually have a theory that I can’t prove, that perhaps a few of the pieces we attribute to Wolfgang were actually hers. Here’s why I think that…
We know they corresponded regularly after she got married and that she continued to compose and send her brother her work, and he wrote back praising her. I have a suspicion that he might have given some of her pieces to be performed, telling patrons they were his. Not to take credit, but so her music would at least be heard.
Again it’s not something I can prove, more like a headcanon thing.
Mozart was also a completely ungovernable furry with ADHD. He was a child genius, but that meant he was sitting in opera rehearsals as a bored teenager.
And when he’d get bored, he’d start finding ways to entertain himself. This included doing things like playing “the floor is lava” while using the orchestra members as platforms, and prancing around while loudly meowing.
And all of them basically put up with it, the same way that modern tour managers put up with annoying frontmen in popular bands.
I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today
Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.
Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One "major" was the equivalent to what would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.
Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people's life choices.
There are more atoms of hydrogen in a molecule of water than there are stars in the whole solar system.
The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the "Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!" one, written in 5/4 time? That's supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code. --.. dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.
FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.
With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.
I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I'm formally educated.
The specifications for all varieties of "9mm" cartridges (9x17, 9x18, and 9x19) actually call for a projectile with a diameter of 0.355 inches, which is actually 9.017 millimeters.
Similarly, the specification for .38 Special calls for a projectile with a diameter of 0.357 inches.
If you measure the barrel of any firearm chambered in any variety of 9mm, .38 Special, or .357 Magnum, you'll find that they're all ostensibly .35 caliber (0.350 inches).
Why? Well, the simplest answer is, things aren't always what they're called. In the world of cartridge designations, there are many, many such idiosyncrasies; these are only scratching the surface. I find this interesting because many people perceive cartridge designations as being very uniform, logical, and standardized, but the actual truth is far from that.
In some cases, the number is even made bigger just to make it sound more powerful, such is the case with .460 S&W Magnum, which is a more powerful version of .454 Casull, which itself is a more powerful version of .45 Colt, all of which actually fire a projectile with a diameter measuring 0.452 inches.
As long as we're doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here's another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
If you mix Sparkling water with instant milk, you got the taste of spoiled milk!
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Sharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
Pythagoras (of Theorem fame) thought that beans were evil, and were also tiny humans.
https://thehistorianshut.com/2024/06/26/pythagoras-curious-relationship-with-beans/
Pythagoras advised followers to “abstain from beans because they are flatulent and partake most of the breath of life; and besides, it is better for the stomach if they are not taken, and this again will make our dreams in sleep smooth and untroubled” (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.24).
Later, in a passage insinuating that the problem with the beans potentially resided in mystic ritual purification issues, Diogenes Laertius wrote that Pythagoras called for, “abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg‑sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform mystic rites in the temples” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.33).
Finally, in terms of potential symbolic reasons for the bean ban, Diogenes wrote, “According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.34).
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This is "God Impregnated me" level unhinged, but with lower stakes. I infer he may have farted once with an attractive partner and it scarred him.
We live on Earth v2.0
There was a body in our orbit and then another large body (neither were planets, I guess, since they hadn’t test cleared their solar orbits of other bodies) crashed into it. The heavier parts stayed in what became the Earth we know. The lighter parts coalesced into what is now the Moon. The Moon is slowly leaving us because it has enough leftover motion to do so.
Significantly more aluminum, calcium, titanium, magnesium, and silicon. My understanding is that a large percentage of the moon was the earth's former crust.
Rattlesnakes get mosquito bites.
If you own a rig to run local LLMs, your computer can also pretty much run weather prediction softwares
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting — Google DeepMind https://share.google/R24aEDxkDuFfnitzo
This is the most recent one I learnt.
There is no thru line from mouth to urethra. You drink water, it gets absorbed into your blood, your urinary system filters excess water and waste, you pee it out. Your pee is filtered blood, the only thru line for water to take from your mouth is your ass. I understood that when it was taught, but I didn't really think about it...
Ketchup, or catsup, which is the same word latinized differently, was a fish sauce from China.
The western Europeans and American colonists used the recipe, and expanded it to things like mushrooms and many other ingredients. (for proof, look at the ketchup entry on wikipedia).
Tomato ketchup (which is specified on your bottle still today) wasn't invented until we realized that tomatoes weren't poisonous despite their color, and their sweetness and tang totally rocked with the ketchup recipe.
Now we use it to eat frenched fries, which aren't French! In fact, they are Belgian, and are named because they used a cooking technique invented by the French called "frenching" which has evolved into deep frying.
So, you are dipping your belgian potatoes into a chinese sauce that use a North American fruit as a base.
And with this information, you shall father nations!
The 300 Spartans were not the only ones that died at Thermopylae.
They were joined by 700 Thespians who did not have some macho ridiculous warrior creed of never retreating as they were not professional soldiers. They were just a bunch of guys trying to do the right thing protecting their homes.
Sharks are older than trees.
The appendix isn't useless it helps repopulate your gut bacteria after you've been ill.
Some people have their heart on the right side of their chest. Some people have all their organs swapped round - really confuses surgeons.
The continents move at roughly the same speed that your fingernails grow.
"German" chocolate cakes aren’t actually German.
Depends on what you mean by that. The creator's last name was German. So really, they are German. Just not the way you are thinking.
It's the same with Ceasar salad. It's not the Caesar you are thinking of, but it is still Ceasar. The guy Ceasar from Mexico.
Everyone knows you jump in the pool in summer, smell the chlorine, and know the water is clean, right?
Fun fact- chlorine dissolved in pool water at the usual sanitation levels has almost no perceptible smell or taste.
HOWEVER, when chlorine binds with certain organic substances, especially ammonia (from the urea in sweat and urine), the result is chloramine which has a significant chlorine-y smell. Chloramine has essentially no disinfecting properties.
So when you go to the public pool and get a whiff of chlorine and think 'man they're using a lot of chlorine today', no, it probably means someone peed in the pool.
You're welcome :)
Ok, but why then when you open a bottle of bleach or container of chlorine pellets, does it smell like chlorine. Do they add the piss ahead of time?
Blue eyes in humans were the result of a mutation. Due to less pigment than average eyes are more sensitive to glare and bright light
The human brain is amazing and can predict the wildest things. You can look around a room and, without touching a thing, understand what it would feel like to lick random items.
Enjoy!
Popes and priests before the renaissance (I can’t remember the specific cut off) were told not to fuck, but all did as it was seen that no one was that godly to deny sex. Early bishops were a hereditary position passed from “celibate” father to son. Oh and the Avignon popes basically built the first European sin city because one of them really loved fucking and gambling.
You can double an hourly rate to approximate the annual wage. $30/hr ~= $60k / year.
Because 50 paid weeks * 40 paid hours = 2000 hours -> 2k
$30 * 2k = $60k
The aging sun will make the continental drift stop via increased solar activity which will accelerate rock weathering. This will break the carbon cycle long before the earth is absorbed by the sun going in its red giant phase.
UPDATE: the wiki has been updated! “However, a 2024 paper by RJ Graham et al. argues that silicate weathering is far less temperature-dependent than initially thought, and that falling carbon dioxide levels are unlikely to lead to the death of life on Earth” yay!