What are some random but cool facts not too many people know? owo

Steve Jobs lost his life in 1985, after a long and strenuous battle against Ligma

blkreit said:
What are some random but cool facts not too many people know? owo

In Germany, not too many people know that the English word "straight" can mean "heterosexual".

Bluetooth is named after Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson.
He was known as a great communicator for connecting and bringing together various tribes, and bluetooth was invented in the same city harald lived.
The bluetooth icon is the runes for H and B.

About 6 minutes into the 31st episode of The Looney Tunes Show (Semper Lie) you can see an error that looks like a upskirt shot of Lola a little. Do with that as you will.

- The first commercial telefax service was introduced in 1865, the fax technology was invented around 15 - 17 years before the american civil war started.

- Leonard Dawe, a 54 year-old crossword compiler from the UK created a crossword puzzle in May 1944 that contained a lot of codenames from Operation Overlord and even the operation's name itself. It turned out to be a complete coincidence that those words were the answers.

- The first helicopter that crossed the english channel was a Focke-Angelis Fa 223 Dragon. This model was also the first mass produceable transport helicopter entering military service.

- A platypus has 10 gender specific chromosomes (We humans have 2 or more rarely 3 at max)

- Space Invaders was the first game with an increasing difficulty level. This was an unintentional effect created by the limited CPU power available, as destroying more and more enemies provided the system with more power for the movement calculaton of the remaining ones.

The most common plant that produces the enigmatic "Tumbleweeds", Kali tragus, is a native plant to Russia and an invasive species in the United States.

Oatmeal is technically soup

What most people use to flip eggs and call a "spatula" is actually a "flipper".
An actual spatula is that rubbery thing you use to scrape the last bit of brownie batter out of the bowl.

There is a common myth that raccoons wash their food before eating it. It's actually not true, the "washing" behavior is only seen in captive raccoons, and they do it even without any water. Wild raccoons are never seen washing their food specifically.

North American flying squirrels and platypuses are the only mammals so far known to fluoresce under UV light, likely because they tend to be nocturnal.

binagon said:
Steve Jobs lost his life in 1985, after a long and strenuous battle against Ligma

what's steve jobs?

binagon said:
Steve Jobs lost his life in 1985, after a long and strenuous battle against Ligma

what's strenuous

binagon said:
Steve Jobs lost his life in 1985, after a long and strenuous battle against Ligma

peanuttheotter said:
what's steve jobs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAIWplFWUw

binagon said:
Steve Jobs lost his life in 1985, after a long and strenuous battle against Ligma

What's life in 1985?

clawstripe said:
North American flying squirrels and platypuses are the only mammals so far known to fluoresce under UV light, likely because they tend to be nocturnal.

Tasmanian devils and bilbies do it too. Also hedgehog, porcupine, and echidna quills also light up under uv light

pyke said:
There is a common myth that raccoons wash their food before eating it. It's actually not true, the "washing" behavior is only seen in captive raccoons, and they do it even without any water. Wild raccoons are never seen washing their food specifically.

Actually, both wild and captive raccoons do it but it is not for cleaning the food so washing is still a misleading name. Their hands just become more sensitive when wet.

pyke said:
There is a common myth that raccoons wash their food before eating it. It's actually not true, the "washing" behavior is only seen in captive raccoons, and they do it even without any water. Wild raccoons are never seen washing their food specifically.

supina said:
Actually, both wild and captive raccoons do it but it is not for cleaning the food so washing is still a misleading name. Their hands just become more sensitive when wet.

SciShow made a great video explaining raccoons "washing" behavior.

The shovel was a ground breaking invention.

Friendly fire, isn't.

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper in 1974 titled The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'.

It is blank.

I was just thinking of this random fact I learned a few months ago.

The ancient Chinese word for Cancer is this symbol: 癌

The side bracket is the symbol for "bed", meaning it's a sickness
The three squares in the middle represent stones, multiplying to infinity (which is the symbol below the three squares). The stones mean it's a great burden but they also represent the cancerous cells that appear as lumps (or "stones" to the Ancient Chinese) in the lymph nodes that appear when cancer spreads throughout the body.

Sport hunting is a threat to biodiversity because it threatens the existence of target species, many of which are already rare, threatened, or endangered, as well as degrades the gene pool of ungulate species because the most valued targets (often dominant males) are the individuals most fit to pass on the best genes.

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

Pangolin scales don't increase your virility, neither does rhinoceros horn.

The parasitical barnacle "Sacculina carcini" infects crabs and is able to manipulate the hormones of male crabs so far that it can become mostly female to a degree

It's been documented that sea otters rape and drown baby seals for entertainment. They have also been known to guard corpses to have sex with for up to a week.

11% of female sea otter deaths are attributed to agressive male sex practices.

Otters.... Nature's necrophiliac rapists.

Male ducks don't quack.

zypher0s said:
It's been documented that sea otters rape and drown baby seals for entertainment. They have also been known to guard corpses to have sex with for up to a week.

11% of female sea otter deaths are attributed to agressive male sex practices.

Otters.... Nature's necrophiliac rapists.

Do we have any porn of that?

pinniped otter rape

lance_armstrong said:
Do we have any porn of that?

pinniped otter rape

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa, we need some.
Not my cup of tea exactly but gimme about six months and I might wip up a model set in blender and do a few scenes. I usually don't post stuff because there isn't a good reason to.

But when I see a gapping hole (in content coverage), I just gotta fill it (tee hee). And that's reason enough.

Must uphold rule 34. Especially considering it's a R34 of an IRL phenomenon.

Some snakes, like Brown tree snakes are NOT immune to their own venom.

What Happens When a Venomous Snake Bites Itself?

Hall and Oates actually met each other running into the same elevator due to a gang war breaking out where they were auditioning.

1. If you tickle a Cat’s toe-beans, they’ll willingly get off of your keyboard, homework, pillow, etc.

2. The Lion King is about incest. Literally, the only males in the pride were Mufasa and his Brother Scar. You do the math, lol.

3. The human memory is roughly equivalent to 2.5 million petabytes. In other words, the information you’re reading now hasn’t taken up much of your brain’s capacity at all.

You can eat C-4. It'll give you one hell of a fit of seizures, and probably cancer later (shit's made from RDX, it's high-explosive rat poison, after all), but it probably won't kill you. Probably.
Always thought bricks of the stuff looked like lard... so... forbidden Crisco, anyone?

Still figuring out how this site works overall. But what does "BUR" mean?

slapsual_harassment said:
Still figuring out how this site works overall. But what does "BUR" mean?

It's what you say when you're freezing cold.

slapsual_harassment said:
Still figuring out how this site works overall. But what does "BUR" mean?

Bulk Update Request, it allows you to submit multiple implications and aliases at the same time, as well as being the only way for users to request unalias and unimplication requests.

furrin_gok said:
Bulk Update Request, it allows you to submit multiple implications and aliases at the same time, as well as being the only way for users to request unalias and unimplication requests.

While also allowing you to edit them as necessary before acceptance or denial.

I want to add more!

1. The Sun’s magnet stretches as far as 372,822,715 miles.

2. Each slice of a banana can be naturally separated into 3rds. Just push down on it carefully.

3. Lemmings don’t really kill themselves! The people recording for Disney actually pushed them off!

4. Native to tropical regions of North & South America, there are exploding fruit trees, otherwise known as Sandbox Trees. Their fruit explode when they get ripe enough, and some even sound like gunshots.

5. Human bites can kill you if they go untreated, and are more dangerous than a number of animal bites.

6. Koala fingerprints are indistinguishable from Human fingerprints.

7. Mixing muriatic acid with aluminum foil inside of a tightly sealed soda bottle will create a bomb that lasts a few seconds. Throw it quickly, and don’t hurt yourself or others! Me and my friend tried this, and it was worth it.

8. There are goats that you can milk spider silk from!

We all carry an exact copy of our biological mothers DNA in each mitochondria

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

nottheknown said:
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

And yet are foreign invaders that decided to take up residence inside us very early in evolution. Now we're stuck with each other.

furrin_gok said:
Bulk Update Request, it allows you to submit multiple implications and aliases at the same time, as well as being the only way for users to request unalias and unimplication requests.

Ah, thank you for the help. :)

Themometers are spedometers for atoms.

Thinking and talking are the same thing.

PS3 (depending on model) can play PS1 and PS2 games
PS3 Slim can play PS1 titles
PS4 can't play older discs and not even an audio CD
PS5 is the same in terms of backwards compatibility and no audio CD playability.
(However, you can still listen to music via a thumbdrive)
(PS5 can play MP4, MP3, and MKV via a thumbdrive)

Xbox One can play a few older titles, even some classic xbox games.
Xbox One can play audio CDs

Not every GTA3 is the same. Xbox version is missing a song. Xbox version has some graphical enhancements and actual moving hand digits.

Understandable why some go to PC because of accessibility to older titles. not to mention the modding.

Libya, Iran, Iraq and North Korea got banned from importing Playstation 2 consoles. The japanese military contacted Sony to prevent them from delivering hardware capable of being used in missiles to countries that most likely would use them for that purpose

If it were possible to see Jupiter's magnetosphere (the extent of its magnetic field), it would be the size of the Full Moon in the sky.

Saturn's average distance from the Sun is twice that of Jupiter's, yet Jupiter's magnetosphere is so large that its tail (formed by pressure from the solar wind) extends well beyond Saturn's orbit.

If it wasn't for Jupiter's moon Io acting as an amplifier, Jupiter's magnetosphere would be far smaller and less powerful.

Jupiter is about as large a planet can be without shrinking under the pull of its own gravity. Although there are exoplanets out there more massive than Jupiter, they are about the same size or even a little smaller.

The cheapest form of AC is reducing the amount of sunlight that enters your home

The sunset on Mars is blue.

peanuttheotter said:
what's steve jobs?

Ligma balls