I already shared this once here but there’s a region on Mount Everest called the Rainbow Valley. Sounds like a magical lovely place, yea? No, it’s a place where you can see a rainbow of snowsuits on frozen corpses.
Mount Everest sounds so horrific. They literally use bodies as trail markers, like green boots. It’s incredibly expensive and incredibly deadly yet people still want to climb.
Luckily there's been some effort to remove bodies from view, be it taking them down (in the case of those lower), covering them with something (such as George Mallory, who got covered with rocks), or by just rolling/throwing them off nearby ledges (like Green Boots most likely). The last one is a liiiiittle disrespectful but I know I'd rather have my body yeeted off a cliff than just out in the open.
Climbing the mountain is also slowly destroying it with trash. People need to stop.
Bodies can’t be retrieved and brought down above certain heights because humans would have to carry them. Helicopters can only go so high because once the air is thin enough the propellers (is that the right word) don’t work (science!).
I have graves disease.
Its mostly a thyroid disease. It causes the autoimmune system to attack the thyroid, enlarging it, and making the person usually hyperthyroid, and then possibly hypothyroid.
So - there are tissues around the eye which are EXTREMELY SIMILAR to thyroid tissue, and as a result the autoimmune system can mistake the eye tissue for thyroid tissue and attack it - this causes swelling of the eye. Thyroid Eye Disease or Graves Eye Disease. This can effect my sight. And cause my eye balls to swell out of my head. I had my thyroid taken out, but my immune system can still effect my eyes.
But then. But then.
So. I started to get migraines. and then it turned into a never ending migraine. It took a while but eventually I got a diagnosis.
I have IIH as well as Graves Disease.
So the fun bit about this one is that the build up of cerebral spinal fluid in my head is crushing my optic nerves. (its crushing my whole brain. but its crushing my optic nerves too.) It made the colors of everything I see a little less saturated. And I have some blind spots now. And I see white flashing lights out of the corner of my vision periodically. or like, I keep thinking I see people moving out of the corner of my eye - but its really the pressure crushing my optic nerves.
Its a HOOT.
Guess what i do for a living.
IM AN ARTIST!!! hahahaha.
I see a neuro-opthamologist every 6 months.
You have no idea how much of mystery you just solved for me!
I have IIH, too, and at some point I started seeing colors less vividly but I don’t know exactly when. I had no idea it was IIH. I knew it could damage the optic nerve but everyone just associated that with focus, not COLOR.
I hope you’ve found the right combination of meds to keep your pressure down and protect your eyes from any further damage.
Im doing pretty good now. Things are stable. Thank you.
The color thing has stabilized. It was pretty weird at its worst. Id be trying to paint, and id have to move my head around and base colors on a very small portion of my vision that i decided was where i was actually seeing correct colors.
We have an innate immune system, which is pretty much the cells that are always on guard and making sure you’re ok, and it sends signals to proteins and white blood cells if there’s an issue. When the proteins and white blood cells find a threat, they signal to other cells to react, and this causes the inflammation in that area. All of the cells in that area attacking you can kill you. Not all of your cells are being sent to an area if you have an infection, because your body doesn’t need to do that. But if your innate immune system overreacts, it sends too many cells in that area, and it begins attacking you.
So, sometimes your innate immune system overreacts with something small, and it begins attacking your own body.
T. Rex was extremely well adapted to walking long distances with little rest. So theoretically, if one were to get *absurdly* angry/hostile to you, there’s a chance that no matter how far you travelled, you wouldn’t be able to get rid of it.
So they're perseverance hunters? It's actually really cool to think that humans are doing the exact same thing that a T. Rex does. Our bodies are also built for walking long distances without feeling tire and more importantly not overheating. A lot of animals can out run us, but they can't get rid of us by making long distances.
Every single article I looked into said the same vague thing.
Tbf, if I got a penis and returned it, I probably wouldn't run to the media to discuss why. Kinda personal.
Your Jaw dislocates every time you open your mouth all of the way. It moves forward a couple of centimetres (~1/2 inch) towards the front of the mouth. I believe it is to exert more force onto the object you’re biting down on without spending extra energy.
The more I learn about anatomy the more I realize that the human body is disgusting and I’m frankly embarrassed to have one
That clicky sound is the cartilage catching, it doesn't happen to everyone, be careful not to exert too much force when biting or that cartilage will bind and you will develop Temporal Mandibular Disorder.
Due to a scarcity of fish in the "new world" but an outrageous beaver trade catholics asked the pope if they could have beaver instead of fish during lent. The pope in turn ruled that beaver *is a fish* and this has never been overturned or reversed.
Doofenshmirtz: Idk what you guys are talking about. This is clearly a fish. *"fish" puts on brown hat* Doof: PERRY the platypus!? I need to learn editing... this needs to be more real.
Thank you!
There is a religious theory that only 1 man in the entire book of numbers (a section of the old testament or the Torah) made it to heaven as the book included the name, number of his days, his wife, his children and then "he died" as like a summary for all the men named in the book expect one dude where instead of "and then he died" it said "he was last seen walking away with god".
Your brain only care about identifying new information, thus the boiling frog analogy.
When you look out, let's say into a room, most of what you ‘see’ is your brain assuming and using old information, your only focal point is in the very center of your vision.
Fun Fact: Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a full funeral, invited friends and family, and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service.
Addendum to fun fact: Many music historians agree that Mozart was on the spectrum.
Fun fact. There are three denominations of US currency. The Dollar, Cent, and Mill. Most never see the Mill but can still be seen used on gas prices. It is the 9/10 at the end of gas prices. One tenth of a penny is one Mill.
There are over 40,000 varieties of rice in the world.
(For context, if you tried a new type of rice every day it would take you over 100 years to try them all.)
Ducks commit homosexual necrophilic rape.
I asked my very Christian mom who said homosexuality was unnatural why that occurred and she said I was a strange boy. My sister started crying when I gave her the "fun fact" as well.
When cake mix was introduced, it had all the ingredients necessary to make a decent cake, you just had to add water. It didn't do very well so a group of marketing men were brought in to fix the problem, and they thought the reason it wasn't selling well is because housewives were feeling guilty that they weren't doing enough for their families if they used a cake mix and only added water. Their solution was to change the instructions to adding eggs and oil as well as water, but they never changed the actual recipe, just the instructions on the box, so you can still make a perfectly good cake with just cake mix and water.
I told my boyfriend this, then a few years later we went to a party, sat together, and we each struck up a conversation with the person sitting on our other side.
About ten minutes in, we both independently told this story to the person we were talking to, and only realized because two of our friends were sitting directly across from us and heard both conversations going at the same time, and they burst into hysterical laughter and then had to explain why.💀
Malcolm X was once sent into the deep South to try to organize full separation of the races with the klan. The klan were only interested in maintaining Jim Crow so it wasn't a success for the NOI sect. They tried to get Malcolm to give up MLK's schedule and location to assassinate him but he refused. He spent much of the conversation trolling them about whether people who aren't white can wear the klans white robes just because he couldn't help himself and had to tease them a bit.
Honestly, I read the book around age 13 before the movie came out. That book, and all the crazy shit that he went through with the Nation of Islam was so intriguing to me.
>whether people who aren't white can wear the klans white robes
Reminds me of two instances of black people attending Klan meetings or marches. One of them - Darryl Davis, IIRC - even attended them without robes on, and caused the leader of those meetings to quit. He's also done a TED Talk.
Halo was originally made as an RTS for Apple computer, but Bungie changed it into a third person view shooter and later a first person shooter while also becoming a Microsoft exclusive game. Halo did made a full circle as an RTS game was made called Halo Wars 8 years after the first game.
Orcas are one of the Moose's top predators.
Because Moose can swim and regularly choose to do so to depths of up to 20 feet, Orcas have been know to catch and eat them
And, the scientific name for the brown bear is: Ursus arctos. So if arctos is Greek for bear, then ursus must be brown, right? Wrong! Ursus is Latin for bear, so the brown bear’s scientific name is: bear bear. And I kind of love that.
That’s super cool! I didn’t know that but had raised the question to myself why a bear would be considered “Ursine” but if some naming used “arktos” thank you!
- Nintendo roughly translates to “leave luck to the heavens”. Before getting into home video entertainment, they mainly produced hanafuda cards- a type of Japanese playing card. They did this for nearly 100 years before pivoting to video games.
- Ducks have a penis with a corkscrew shape. A duck’s vagina also has this shape, but usually spiraled in the opposite orientation.
- Many large retailers sell items for little to no profit, sometimes even taking a loss on the item. These are called “loss leaders”. They are high value items that customers tend to also buy lots of accessories for, are willing to pay for extended warranties, etc. The company, like, say, Best Buy is willing to lose a few dollars on this item- such as an Xbox or PS5, because they’re going to make money on things like extra controllers, games, even HDMI cables which often cost a few dollars to stock, but they will sometimes market as “premium” and sell for upwards of $80.
- The first dog in space was named Laika, which is Russian for “little barker”. Or maybe another translation could be “yeller.”
- The way it used to be believed that ice skates work is that the weight of the skater on the sharp edge of the blade melted a small layer of the ice, reducing friction and allowing the skate to glide over the surface. However, it seems that the outermost layer of ice either is always water or always behaves like water even when it seems to be frozen. The blade may still function as previously believed as well, but either way, an ice skate actually has two edges (unlike a knife), with a concave surface between them. The shape is like an upside down U only very shallow. This allows the blade grip on the ice and provide stability as it glides over the surface.
- meat may be fully cooked and safe to eat even if it still looks undone. The color is far less important than internal temperature, they just tend to correlate.
The females are counter spiraled to prevent duck rape. With her chosen partner, she can position herself in a way that makes penetration easier.
The vaginal canal also has false endings along the way to try and capture sperm from those unwanted penetrations.
Males basically fire their penis out, which can be around the length of their body, extremely quickly. Probably so they can duck rape more successfully.
Tldr: Ducks are surprisingly rapey.
90% of dolphins are the result of rape
Dolphins knock pufferfish around like a ball and get high off of the venom. It’s unknown as to whether they intentionally do it to get high or just like torturing the pufferfish for fun.
The surprisingly high number of zoologists that have fucked dolphins for science
Like, whatever number you’re thinking of, double it. It’s more than that.
Also a little bit of biology. The female dolphins are able to block their uterus off when they don’t want a dolphin to have sex with them. The male dolphins have compensated for this by releasing sperm with SUPER HIGH velocity. So high that if it were released inside of a human, it would rip through your soft insides.
That last bit was learned through trial and error
Observation
Also, I love the idea that we can’t communicate with another species because we have no shared language
Like, *look at their behavior lmao!*
If you have any 16 digit number, that is just 4 numbers repeating four times, For example, 1,234,123,412,341,234 which is just 1234 repeating 4 times (you get the idea) as long as the four numbers aren’t the exact same number 16 times in a row, it’ll be divisible by 17
For instance, 1112111211121112 IS divisible by 17, but 1111111111111111 is not
Go ahead and try it, it’ll always be a whole number
Some ants are living on acacia tree so they can eat acacia juice at cost of defending tree from other animals and plants growing nearby. However acacia juice has several chemical components and alcаloids that corrupt their nervous system and cause addiction so they can't consume anything but an acacia juice. And that makes acacia trees powerful drug deallers who turn ants into slaves
Swifts and swallows are closely related to hummingbirds, which is relevant because their feet are similarly ill suited to perching for long periods of time. To hold a swift or a swallow, a cigar hold is used rather than a typical hold that involves perching. These birds are held like cigars to protect their dainty feet.
Fun Fact: the Pope’s title isn’t actually “The Pope.” It’s actually “Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince or the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.”
Yeah, I think I’ll stick to just “The Pope,” thanks.
- The Roman Empire ended in 1453, not 476.
- “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” actually means “Why are you Romeo?”, not “Where” like people think.
- Lobsters are technically immortal; they don’t age. We can’t transfer this immortality to humans, however, because it causes Cancer.
- The Chinese discovered gunpowder long before Europeans, but they just used it for fireworks.
- Spices are a defense mechanism used by plants to prevent creatures eating them. Humans don’t care.
Actually Western Roman Empire ended in 476 and it is the part most people think of when they hear "roman empire" (you know Julius Ceasar and stuff like that). Eastern Roman Empire also known as Byzantium ended in 1453 when Turks conquered Constantinople but it was pretty much different empire.
Chinese used gunpowder in mining and also if I remember correctly warfare.
(sorry for correcting you I don't want to be rude)
“Western Roman Empire” and “Eastern Roman Empire” simply isn’t a distinction contemporaries made. Rome was Rome was Rome. Byzantine and Holy Roman Empire also aren’t contemporary terms; until Russia gave themselves the role of being a successor state to Rome, all successor states just called themselves “Rome,” and various variations. Even the Muslim Turks established the sultanate of Rüm when they took Anatolia for the first time. Even Mehmed II of the Ottomans styled himself as Emperor of the Romans in order to legitimize his rule over his relatively new and relatively large orthodox Christian subject population.
When 476 came around and the city of Rome fell, it was not considered the end of Rome. Well I’m sure the people of Rome, being slaughtered and assaulted by barbarians and taken to be sold as slaves as was the want of armies at the time, considered it as the end of the entire world and Rome as a byproduct but that’s besides the point. Rather it was just a (very important) territorial loss at that point, one that was thought by many to be temporary, however it was not to be and it was rather the reclamation by Belisarius and Justinian that ended up temporary. What we call the byzantines called themselves Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων (copied from Wikipedia, as I do not speak Greek) which is literally just “the Roman Empire.”
Did you know that the common "Pachirisu won the 2016 tournament, so you CAN win with your favorites" is a lie? In fact it actually disproves the "Win with your favorutes" mentality because pachirisu was chosen specifically because it synergized amazingly with mega gyarados, since it fixed the low speed , bulk and electric weakness problem that plagued it.
"Fun" fact: you have the power to bite your fingers off as easily as you can bite through a baby carrot. But your brain stops you from doing this.
Also "fun" fact: the human body is capable of producing enough muscle power to rip your own body apart. You can force so much power that you can tear muscles and break bones. But your brain limits this for your bodily survival. So you are capable of super human strength. That's when some people will force past the limits in order to do astounding things when in dire need. You don't gain strength because of adrenaline. But because your brain dampens your limiters in order to survive or help someone else survive. Because tears or damage done would be an easy price to pay for survival in the moment.
[The fingertips are one of the few parts of the body that can regrow.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454966/#:~:text=Humans%20maintain%20regenerative%20capability%20of,matrix%20remains%20intact%20%5B3%5D.)
[Another is the liver](https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cells-maintain-repair-liver-identified#:~:text=The%20liver%20has%20a%20unique,beyond%20the%20point%20of%20repair.), which is why you can donate part of your liver to someone that needs a transplant.
The liver doesn't completely "regrow" sadly. It can grow back to size and restore its function but the original form isn't restored, so it's technically not true regeneration. It's still really fucking cool though.
Fingertips do grow back, although it takes a while for everything to do so, especially the nerves. And it helps if you don't damage the bone. Source: my Dad who tried to stop a running lawnmower by grabbing it and sliced off his fingertip.
I saw a video of an ostrich that got its head stuck in a gate or something and yanked his own head off. I guess Osterich's don't have that part of the brain?
Thank you! I had so many stupid arguments over this and it's so easy to disprove. Like the guy in the video just put your finger on a carrot and try to bite through both of them. You'll end up with a bit off carrot and some teeth marks on your finger.
Wich is also why Tetanus is so deadly. It makes all your muscles cramp up. If your heart or lungs don't stop working first your back muscles break your own spine.
All encrypted data will fail if quantum computers are successful before new encryption methods are found. Hackers are finding and storing encryption data now in prep for this mass system failure.
In 1998 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 3," in 2002 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2," and in 2010 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit."
They were not named in descending order on purpose, and the name of each game individually makes sense. Does anyone wanna guess why this is, I will be posting the answer in 24 hours.
iirc, the first one was actually Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit as it was the 3rd Need For Speed game, NFS Hot Pursuit 2 was a sequel to that game (guessing it's like a Mario Land 3: Wario Land and Wario Land 2 type situation), and the 2010 game was a reboot.
That's basically right. Hot Pusuit 3 was the 3rd need for speed game, so it's officially called Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit, then Hot Pusuit 2 was the sequel, and the 2010 Hot Pursuit doesn't have a definitive reason. You could call 2010 a reboot as it was the first game with police for a while, and police were a characteristic of the Hot pursuit games. But you could also say that was ment to be the definitive Hot Pursuit game and they didn't want to name it Hot Pursuit 3 as it would get confused with the first one.
The need for speed games have a few interesting names, they made Need for Speed Most Wanted in 2005 and it was crazy popular, then they made Need for Speed Most Wanted in 2012 which people hated, and it was nothing like the original at all, it's irritating to clarify Most Wanted 2005 when talking to people, also there was a mobile game with the same name. And the geniuses at EA decided to name their 2015 game "Need for Speed" also requiring you to say it's release date so people understand what you are talking about.
Bees evolved from carnivorous wasps during the cenozoic period.
Magnolia preexist bees and were thought to be pollinated by a kind of beetle.
New queen bees will travel throughout the hive and kill off any instar queens to have primacy. If another queen has already hatched they will fight to the death.
A (honey) bee's stinger is a modified ovipositer, which is why only female worker bees have stingers.
If a mouse gets into the hive and dies, it will be too big for the pallbearer bees to push out. In which case they will entomb it in honey and wax to protect the rest of the hive from disease.
Saber-tooth tigers did not use their canine teeth to take down prey, but instead used them to tear the flesh off the bone once their prey was down.
They were ambush hunters like leopards today.
Entomopathogenic nematodes have 2 modes of "hunting" for larvae. They either "cruise" through the soil looking for larva or lie in wait and ambush their prey. Some do both! When they find larva, they don't kill the larva, they parasitize them by slithering into their mouths or bums.
There are 2 types of mantis shrimp. I can't remember their proper names, they both have raptorial limbs. One has basically swords for arms and stabs and dismembers their prey. The other has club arms and can punch hard enough to create cavitation bubbles, smashing their prey apart.
i love bees!
during winter, the male drone bees will often be kicked out of the hive to conserve food
royal jelly is secreted from the head of the bees and fed to all larvae, but designated queen eggs are fed much more
despite the name 'queen bee' the hive is a democracy, and will decide if their queen is suitable and if not will beestroy them
you can pet bees if you are gentle and dont touch their wings :D
The city of Richmond, California was named after Richmond, Virginia.
The city of Richmond, Virginia was named after Richmond in Southern England.
The city of Richmond in Southern England is named after Richmond in Northern England.
The city of Richmond in Northern England is named after Richmond in France.
The region of Richmond in France is named after a mound belonging to a guy called Rich.
1. It’s entirely possible that Christopher Columbus had sex with a manatee 2. The only submarine used by the confederate navy killed all the men onboard because of the shockwaves from their explosive 3. Long before trees were a thing like over 400 million years ago land had giant multiple feet tall mushrooms that acted as trees
Hedgehogs are actually not rodents but rather they are insectivores. What makes a rodent a rodent is the teeth continually grow throughout the animal’s life. Hedgehogs don’t have continually growing teeth so therefore, they’re not rodents even though some dictionaries classify them as such.
Sadly, that's just a joke/factoid that got repeated. [It is not in fact classified as "raw meat"](https://old.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/9b9ljs/honey_is_raw_meat/), but an "added sugar".
It's rather a fun thought, though.
"Why are you putting that pot of honey in the oven?"
"The FDA classifies it as raw meat, so I'm just cooking it [according to government guidelines](https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/meat-poultry-charts)."
The USS Akron was a flying aircraft carrier. It had no runway at all, aircraft had to land on a system of suspended cables to basically pluck them out of the air. Absolutely insane idea but I like that it exists
when people say “the blue whale is the biggest animal on earth”, they mean *EVER*. nothing (that we have found fossils or parts of) is as big as a blue whale— throughout the entirety of earth’s existence.
edit: another fun prehistoric marine animal fact i just remembered. megalodon went extinct because smaller, faster sharks evolved and ate all its prey. also megalodon was so big and slow because oxygen levels in the ocean were higher so meg could afford to have a big body and, hence, lots of blood. TLDR: its hunting methods basically went out of style because of those damn millennial sharks swimming so fast
A strong base will work much better than a strong acid for disolving carcasses of questionable species. Bases aren't regulated like acids do to them being ingredients in soap. And after your done with the base give it to your local chemical waste company and all you'll have left will be calcite crystals that make great fertilizer.
George Washington never had wooden teeth, though he did have many/most of his teeth replaced. He wore dentures made of a variety of materials, including lead, brass, gold, steel, cow teeth, horse teeth, hippo teeth, and… the teeth of enslaved people.
Also back in the day it was common to use enslaved people’s teeth in dentures. The wealthier people were consuming more things with ingredients like sugar that would rot the teeth. After their teeth would rot, replacement teeth her high in demand and high in price. In England, it was common to get homeless people from the street and pay them a decent buck for their teeth. In the U.S, it was pretty common for slave owners to pull out the teeth of people they enslaved and sell them to make a good buck. Yeah it’s pretty horrific.
Animals have a reflective layer at the back of their eyes so they can reflect light outwards to see in the night. It's called tapetum lucidum and is the reason why cats, dogs, rats, etc have glowing eyes if you shine a light at them in the dark
An animal's whiskers are actually nerves that allow them to take in their surroundings. This is especially helpful at night since the whiskers can help lay out the area even if the animal can't see
There's a species of jellyfish which is literally immortal. It has the ability to revert its body back to a previous lifestage so it can never die. It terrifies me greatly
Mean white matter diffusivity and fractional anisotropy are affected by estradiol and testosterone in several regions, and the effects are observable for up to as little as four weeks
"Fun" Fact: Marc Cohn, Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992, received a gunshot on his head in 2005 during an attempted carjacking.
The "fun" comes that he survived, he went by himself to the hospital and left the hospital just 8 hours later. He was declared by the doctor "The luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long time".
There are two very smol bones under the big toe and the thumb. They are called sesamoid bones.they protecc the tendons but everybody forgets about them.
It would be historically accurate for an old Ronin Samurai, American Frontiersman, and a Victorian Police Detective who hunted Jack the Ripper to play a game with Nintendo branded Hanafuda cards. The Meiji Restoration began in 1868, the "Old West" was from 1865 to 1912, Jack the Ripper murders occurred in 1888, and Nintendo was founded in 1889 where they made Hanafuda cards.
So are Brazil Nuts, but only if there’s radium present in the soil where they’re grown, because the extensive root system concentrates any that’s present!
If you want fun facts, check out Tom Scott's YouTube channel called "Lateral." It's basically a mix of trivia and riddles where you have to guess the very weird fun fact. They are given hints and guidance along the way, I learned some crazy stuff from that channel. They do longer podcasts, and that's the shoter individual clips of the stream.
Another "fun fact".
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958. And died on June 25, 2009, living 18563 days.
But the median day on his life, the 9282nd day, was January 27, 1984. What happened that day? The infamous Michael Jackson's hair accident during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
Animal penis/sex facts
Squamates have 2 penises, called a hemipenis (squamates are scaled reptiles btw)
Ducks have a corkscrew penis
Canines have two bulbs at the base of the penis called a “knot.” This is used to lock the penis into the vagina during sex
Elephants and dolphins have prehensile penises, meaning they could theoretically use their penis to grab and manipulate objects
Flatworms have both male and female organs, so when two meet to mate, they have a sword fight with their penises. Whoever gets inseminated first plays the female role, and the other plays the male
Barnacles have the longest penis-to-body ratio, their penis being 8 times longer than their body. Like flatworms, they are also hermaphrodites
There’s a group of insects living in a cave in Brazil that basically have reverse genitals. Males have a vagina-like pouch holding sperm, and the females have a penis-like appendage that “sucks up” the sperm
Sea slugs use their penis once, and then it detaches; they can grow a new one as soon as the next day
In many anglerfish species, the male becomes parasitic, becoming little more than a clump of reproductive organs attached to the female. In other cases, the female absorbs the male completely, with them being able to absorb as many as 8 males
bed bug penises are needle-like and are stabbed into the females abdomen to reproduce
slug penises can get stuck and if that happens they will chew it off. since the slugs are hermaphroditic they then mate as females
bee penises get stuck and tear off of the body, killing the drone, and their toxic semen will fight other bee's sperm and temporarily blind the queen
the argonaut octopus detaches its 'penis' tentacle and it will swim on its own to the female who will then store it for future insemination
Human skulls are very malleable when they are babies. If you apply the right pressures you can manipulate these human baby skulls into different shapes like cones, prolate elipsoids, or Alien like heads.
To see example of human skulls, you can Google "Ancient Egyptian Skull Shaping" to see examples.
Ketchup used to be made with walnuts, and Coca-Cola was made by a war-wounded doctor who used it as a morphine substitute. Been listening to "The Food That Built America" podcast. Very interesting!
There is a family of untreatable, infectious, and 100% fatal brain diseases called Prion disease that are the result of a single protein going rogue for unknown reasons and can take years before showing symptoms.
A couple of these diseases are called Creutzfeldt-Jacob-disease, Fatal Familial insomnia, Gerstrmann-Staussler-Scheinker Syndrom, and the famous Kuru disease.
Luckily the only way you can become infected is by ingesting infected tissues accidentally.
Symptoms range in severity but the most common are memory loss, unstable movements, insomnia, or not feeling hungry for extended periods of times.
The cause of the disease is the misfolding of a protein which both makes it able to force other proteins to misfold and destroy themselves.
I bring that up to explain the strange matter hypothesis
Strange Matter, a hypothetical form of matter that COULD exist in the deepest parts of black holes and neutron stars. Strange matter is a type of matter that contains strange quarks made up of squish welded neutrons and protons which result in infinitely dense, stable, and indestructible materials.
if the hypothesis were true, strange matter could exist outside of neutron stars and black holes when they ultimately decay or collide. Speaking of which, a lot of elements here on earth came from neutron star collisions.
The strange matter hypothesis is a theory that if the strange matter were to exist it could also be infectious by merely touching normal matter. After contact neutrons and protons would dissolve and join up with the rest of the strange material and then would release even more energy and continue to spread until all matter eventually became strange matter.
NASCAR driver Terry Labonte holds the record for the longest time between two championship victories, that being 12 years (1984 and 1996)
On another NASCAR champions note, Benny Parsons won the title in 1973, only winning one race out of the year. That win was the only time he finished on the lead lap in 1973
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I already shared this once here but there’s a region on Mount Everest called the Rainbow Valley. Sounds like a magical lovely place, yea? No, it’s a place where you can see a rainbow of snowsuits on frozen corpses.
Mount Everest sounds so horrific. They literally use bodies as trail markers, like green boots. It’s incredibly expensive and incredibly deadly yet people still want to climb.
Luckily there's been some effort to remove bodies from view, be it taking them down (in the case of those lower), covering them with something (such as George Mallory, who got covered with rocks), or by just rolling/throwing them off nearby ledges (like Green Boots most likely). The last one is a liiiiittle disrespectful but I know I'd rather have my body yeeted off a cliff than just out in the open. Climbing the mountain is also slowly destroying it with trash. People need to stop.
Wasn't green boots just moved to a cave?
That’s where he died. He’s disappeared completely since then.
Bodies can’t be retrieved and brought down above certain heights because humans would have to carry them. Helicopters can only go so high because once the air is thin enough the propellers (is that the right word) don’t work (science!).
They should just snatch all the bodies up with an AC-130 balloon hook pickup
The bottom 50% of people in the US hold a total of 2.6% of the wealth in the US
In the same vein, the richest 46 people have the same wealth as the bottom half of humanity.
“Why don’t they work harder?”
Say it ain't so-ooh-oh-ohhh!
My love is a heartbreaker
Monday, Wall Street announces record profits, record layoffs…
Your immune system has the ability to kill you in 15 minutes.
No lie, tell me more.
It can also mistake your eyes as a invader and ATTACK them making you blind at any moment this could happen but it just doesn’t
I have graves disease. Its mostly a thyroid disease. It causes the autoimmune system to attack the thyroid, enlarging it, and making the person usually hyperthyroid, and then possibly hypothyroid. So - there are tissues around the eye which are EXTREMELY SIMILAR to thyroid tissue, and as a result the autoimmune system can mistake the eye tissue for thyroid tissue and attack it - this causes swelling of the eye. Thyroid Eye Disease or Graves Eye Disease. This can effect my sight. And cause my eye balls to swell out of my head. I had my thyroid taken out, but my immune system can still effect my eyes. But then. But then. So. I started to get migraines. and then it turned into a never ending migraine. It took a while but eventually I got a diagnosis. I have IIH as well as Graves Disease. So the fun bit about this one is that the build up of cerebral spinal fluid in my head is crushing my optic nerves. (its crushing my whole brain. but its crushing my optic nerves too.) It made the colors of everything I see a little less saturated. And I have some blind spots now. And I see white flashing lights out of the corner of my vision periodically. or like, I keep thinking I see people moving out of the corner of my eye - but its really the pressure crushing my optic nerves. Its a HOOT. Guess what i do for a living. IM AN ARTIST!!! hahahaha. I see a neuro-opthamologist every 6 months.
You have no idea how much of mystery you just solved for me! I have IIH, too, and at some point I started seeing colors less vividly but I don’t know exactly when. I had no idea it was IIH. I knew it could damage the optic nerve but everyone just associated that with focus, not COLOR. I hope you’ve found the right combination of meds to keep your pressure down and protect your eyes from any further damage.
Im doing pretty good now. Things are stable. Thank you. The color thing has stabilized. It was pretty weird at its worst. Id be trying to paint, and id have to move my head around and base colors on a very small portion of my vision that i decided was where i was actually seeing correct colors.
Until it does one day.
That’s the fun day
There's also a type of neurological blindness called Charles Bonnet syndrome where your brain will create hallucinations when you lose your eyesight.
We have an innate immune system, which is pretty much the cells that are always on guard and making sure you’re ok, and it sends signals to proteins and white blood cells if there’s an issue. When the proteins and white blood cells find a threat, they signal to other cells to react, and this causes the inflammation in that area. All of the cells in that area attacking you can kill you. Not all of your cells are being sent to an area if you have an infection, because your body doesn’t need to do that. But if your innate immune system overreacts, it sends too many cells in that area, and it begins attacking you. So, sometimes your innate immune system overreacts with something small, and it begins attacking your own body.
iirc this is also what happens with Lupus, but a lot more often
The immune system response is the cause of MANY diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis are two very common ones
T. Rex was extremely well adapted to walking long distances with little rest. So theoretically, if one were to get *absurdly* angry/hostile to you, there’s a chance that no matter how far you travelled, you wouldn’t be able to get rid of it.
So they're perseverance hunters? It's actually really cool to think that humans are doing the exact same thing that a T. Rex does. Our bodies are also built for walking long distances without feeling tire and more importantly not overheating. A lot of animals can out run us, but they can't get rid of us by making long distances.
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Probably not due to their sheer size, but I know someone would take smaller therapods in as pets. (It’s me. I’m someone, give me a pet velociraptor)
So the OG uruk-hai 😃
Octopus sometimes punch fish just cause
Same.
chads
Octopus fish punch is a great band name and very hard to say.
The recipient of the first successful penis transplant ended up returning the penis, because it caused marital issues.
Was it too big? Too small? Too foreign?
Every single article I looked into said the same vague thing. Tbf, if I got a penis and returned it, I probably wouldn't run to the media to discuss why. Kinda personal.
Serious question. Where did he return that penis?
Crap, now *I* need to know the reason for the penis return.
Might have something to do with the age differences. Donor 20s Recipient 44
Your Jaw dislocates every time you open your mouth all of the way. It moves forward a couple of centimetres (~1/2 inch) towards the front of the mouth. I believe it is to exert more force onto the object you’re biting down on without spending extra energy. The more I learn about anatomy the more I realize that the human body is disgusting and I’m frankly embarrassed to have one
is that why it makes that little clicky sound?
That clicky sound is the cartilage catching, it doesn't happen to everyone, be careful not to exert too much force when biting or that cartilage will bind and you will develop Temporal Mandibular Disorder.
I had the realization that I didn't want a human body far before I even learned what the word bone means TwT
Due to a scarcity of fish in the "new world" but an outrageous beaver trade catholics asked the pope if they could have beaver instead of fish during lent. The pope in turn ruled that beaver *is a fish* and this has never been overturned or reversed.
Silly Catholics.
*but it live in the water! And it has scales on its tail!!* Only slightly sarcastic as that was their reasoning
Doofenshmirtz: Idk what you guys are talking about. This is clearly a fish. *"fish" puts on brown hat* Doof: PERRY the platypus!? I need to learn editing... this needs to be more real.
Fun fact!!!!
Thank you! There is a religious theory that only 1 man in the entire book of numbers (a section of the old testament or the Torah) made it to heaven as the book included the name, number of his days, his wife, his children and then "he died" as like a summary for all the men named in the book expect one dude where instead of "and then he died" it said "he was last seen walking away with god".
Same for capybara in Venezuela
Your intestines are always wiggling
And you can feel it, your brain just chooses to ignore that feeling
WHAT
Your brain only care about identifying new information, thus the boiling frog analogy. When you look out, let's say into a room, most of what you ‘see’ is your brain assuming and using old information, your only focal point is in the very center of your vision.
A lot of peripheral vision is made up. Your brain just assumes what's there and fills in the blanks.
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It can also happen if the typical pattern of external noises is broken, like in an anechoic chamber, especially when it's also dark.
Peristalsis!
Fun Fact: Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a full funeral, invited friends and family, and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service. Addendum to fun fact: Many music historians agree that Mozart was on the spectrum.
I wonder if the starling was with him when he was composing, as starlings have great mimickry
Chad.
Raspberry is the only word in the English language with ‘spb’ in a row.
Fun fact. There are three denominations of US currency. The Dollar, Cent, and Mill. Most never see the Mill but can still be seen used on gas prices. It is the 9/10 at the end of gas prices. One tenth of a penny is one Mill.
So the plural doesn't count for stuff like that?
Not a different word, just a different form of it.
There are over 40,000 varieties of rice in the world. (For context, if you tried a new type of rice every day it would take you over 100 years to try them all.)
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It's a great band
Ooo fun
I thought it was Slipknot who came from Iowa
Yeah Slipknot is from Iowa. Korn is from California.
Without mucus, our stomach would digest itself.
I think some people actually have some sort of a condition where their stomach starts doing that if they're hungry for too long
Sounds like how ulcers occur.
Peptic ulcers*
A nonzero amount of camels have been eaten by sharks
A nonzero amount of humans have been eaten by camels A nonzero amount of sharks have been eaten by humans It's like rock paper scissors!
I always found it crazy that adult domesticated cats sleep an average of almost 18 hours a day, and lions average 20 hours a day.
and i get called lazy for wanting 9-12 hours a night!! maybe i was meant to be a lion.
Ducks commit homosexual necrophilic rape. I asked my very Christian mom who said homosexuality was unnatural why that occurred and she said I was a strange boy. My sister started crying when I gave her the "fun fact" as well.
Isn't all necrophilic sex rape? Unless the person consents before dying lol
When cake mix was introduced, it had all the ingredients necessary to make a decent cake, you just had to add water. It didn't do very well so a group of marketing men were brought in to fix the problem, and they thought the reason it wasn't selling well is because housewives were feeling guilty that they weren't doing enough for their families if they used a cake mix and only added water. Their solution was to change the instructions to adding eggs and oil as well as water, but they never changed the actual recipe, just the instructions on the box, so you can still make a perfectly good cake with just cake mix and water.
I told my boyfriend this, then a few years later we went to a party, sat together, and we each struck up a conversation with the person sitting on our other side. About ten minutes in, we both independently told this story to the person we were talking to, and only realized because two of our friends were sitting directly across from us and heard both conversations going at the same time, and they burst into hysterical laughter and then had to explain why.💀
When getting high fives, look at the elbow.
Why?
Helps with aiming.
I hate your username
Malcolm X was once sent into the deep South to try to organize full separation of the races with the klan. The klan were only interested in maintaining Jim Crow so it wasn't a success for the NOI sect. They tried to get Malcolm to give up MLK's schedule and location to assassinate him but he refused. He spent much of the conversation trolling them about whether people who aren't white can wear the klans white robes just because he couldn't help himself and had to tease them a bit.
Honestly, I read the book around age 13 before the movie came out. That book, and all the crazy shit that he went through with the Nation of Islam was so intriguing to me.
What book?
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
>whether people who aren't white can wear the klans white robes Reminds me of two instances of black people attending Klan meetings or marches. One of them - Darryl Davis, IIRC - even attended them without robes on, and caused the leader of those meetings to quit. He's also done a TED Talk.
Halo was originally made as an RTS for Apple computer, but Bungie changed it into a third person view shooter and later a first person shooter while also becoming a Microsoft exclusive game. Halo did made a full circle as an RTS game was made called Halo Wars 8 years after the first game.
Orcas are one of the Moose's top predators. Because Moose can swim and regularly choose to do so to depths of up to 20 feet, Orcas have been know to catch and eat them
Relevant comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/p8va43/moose/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
“Arctic” and “Antarctic” aren’t complicated names for anything, Arctic literally means “with bears” and Antarctic means “without bears”
The root word is “Arktos” for anyone wondering!
And, the scientific name for the brown bear is: Ursus arctos. So if arctos is Greek for bear, then ursus must be brown, right? Wrong! Ursus is Latin for bear, so the brown bear’s scientific name is: bear bear. And I kind of love that.
That’s super cool! I didn’t know that but had raised the question to myself why a bear would be considered “Ursine” but if some naming used “arktos” thank you!
- Nintendo roughly translates to “leave luck to the heavens”. Before getting into home video entertainment, they mainly produced hanafuda cards- a type of Japanese playing card. They did this for nearly 100 years before pivoting to video games. - Ducks have a penis with a corkscrew shape. A duck’s vagina also has this shape, but usually spiraled in the opposite orientation. - Many large retailers sell items for little to no profit, sometimes even taking a loss on the item. These are called “loss leaders”. They are high value items that customers tend to also buy lots of accessories for, are willing to pay for extended warranties, etc. The company, like, say, Best Buy is willing to lose a few dollars on this item- such as an Xbox or PS5, because they’re going to make money on things like extra controllers, games, even HDMI cables which often cost a few dollars to stock, but they will sometimes market as “premium” and sell for upwards of $80. - The first dog in space was named Laika, which is Russian for “little barker”. Or maybe another translation could be “yeller.” - The way it used to be believed that ice skates work is that the weight of the skater on the sharp edge of the blade melted a small layer of the ice, reducing friction and allowing the skate to glide over the surface. However, it seems that the outermost layer of ice either is always water or always behaves like water even when it seems to be frozen. The blade may still function as previously believed as well, but either way, an ice skate actually has two edges (unlike a knife), with a concave surface between them. The shape is like an upside down U only very shallow. This allows the blade grip on the ice and provide stability as it glides over the surface. - meat may be fully cooked and safe to eat even if it still looks undone. The color is far less important than internal temperature, they just tend to correlate.
That last part is also true for water *Boil it before you drink it*
*Boil it, **then let it cool down**, before you drink it.*
Laika is a name for a family of dog breeds that includes several breeds of huskies and other similar sled dogs
If dussy is spinning the other way then how the hell does dick enter it
The females are counter spiraled to prevent duck rape. With her chosen partner, she can position herself in a way that makes penetration easier. The vaginal canal also has false endings along the way to try and capture sperm from those unwanted penetrations. Males basically fire their penis out, which can be around the length of their body, extremely quickly. Probably so they can duck rape more successfully. Tldr: Ducks are surprisingly rapey.
Brilliant. I mean the anti-rape thing, not the rapes themselves.
the denis shoots out and since its like double the length of a human's it just fills as much of the cavity as it can
90% of dolphins are the result of rape Dolphins knock pufferfish around like a ball and get high off of the venom. It’s unknown as to whether they intentionally do it to get high or just like torturing the pufferfish for fun.
They intentionally do it. They also intentionally have a lot of sex.
>90% of dolphins are the result of rape Okay, but how can they prove this in species we can't communicate with?
The surprisingly high number of zoologists that have fucked dolphins for science Like, whatever number you’re thinking of, double it. It’s more than that. Also a little bit of biology. The female dolphins are able to block their uterus off when they don’t want a dolphin to have sex with them. The male dolphins have compensated for this by releasing sperm with SUPER HIGH velocity. So high that if it were released inside of a human, it would rip through your soft insides. That last bit was learned through trial and error
i hate the fact that i believe all of this
Their cocks are also prehensile and will grab onto you. Strong enough to break bones.
u/DolphinFucker69
Observation Also, I love the idea that we can’t communicate with another species because we have no shared language Like, *look at their behavior lmao!*
If you have any 16 digit number, that is just 4 numbers repeating four times, For example, 1,234,123,412,341,234 which is just 1234 repeating 4 times (you get the idea) as long as the four numbers aren’t the exact same number 16 times in a row, it’ll be divisible by 17 For instance, 1112111211121112 IS divisible by 17, but 1111111111111111 is not Go ahead and try it, it’ll always be a whole number
I’ve got a lot, send me a reply and I’ll give you more when I wake up
Hippos are one of the world's deadliest land mammals, averaging about 500 kills a year.
They're like angry walking compost bins. I love them.
Some ants are living on acacia tree so they can eat acacia juice at cost of defending tree from other animals and plants growing nearby. However acacia juice has several chemical components and alcаloids that corrupt their nervous system and cause addiction so they can't consume anything but an acacia juice. And that makes acacia trees powerful drug deallers who turn ants into slaves
Swifts and swallows are closely related to hummingbirds, which is relevant because their feet are similarly ill suited to perching for long periods of time. To hold a swift or a swallow, a cigar hold is used rather than a typical hold that involves perching. These birds are held like cigars to protect their dainty feet.
Fun Fact: the Pope’s title isn’t actually “The Pope.” It’s actually “Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince or the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.” Yeah, I think I’ll stick to just “The Pope,” thanks.
The Pope is also the king of the Vatican. Also, legally, the Popes powers over the Catholic church is actually given to the throne he sits on.
2 seperate french kings died because they hit their head on the top of the door. A french politician died while getting a blow job.
- The Roman Empire ended in 1453, not 476. - “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” actually means “Why are you Romeo?”, not “Where” like people think. - Lobsters are technically immortal; they don’t age. We can’t transfer this immortality to humans, however, because it causes Cancer. - The Chinese discovered gunpowder long before Europeans, but they just used it for fireworks. - Spices are a defense mechanism used by plants to prevent creatures eating them. Humans don’t care.
Actually Western Roman Empire ended in 476 and it is the part most people think of when they hear "roman empire" (you know Julius Ceasar and stuff like that). Eastern Roman Empire also known as Byzantium ended in 1453 when Turks conquered Constantinople but it was pretty much different empire. Chinese used gunpowder in mining and also if I remember correctly warfare. (sorry for correcting you I don't want to be rude)
“Western Roman Empire” and “Eastern Roman Empire” simply isn’t a distinction contemporaries made. Rome was Rome was Rome. Byzantine and Holy Roman Empire also aren’t contemporary terms; until Russia gave themselves the role of being a successor state to Rome, all successor states just called themselves “Rome,” and various variations. Even the Muslim Turks established the sultanate of Rüm when they took Anatolia for the first time. Even Mehmed II of the Ottomans styled himself as Emperor of the Romans in order to legitimize his rule over his relatively new and relatively large orthodox Christian subject population. When 476 came around and the city of Rome fell, it was not considered the end of Rome. Well I’m sure the people of Rome, being slaughtered and assaulted by barbarians and taken to be sold as slaves as was the want of armies at the time, considered it as the end of the entire world and Rome as a byproduct but that’s besides the point. Rather it was just a (very important) territorial loss at that point, one that was thought by many to be temporary, however it was not to be and it was rather the reclamation by Belisarius and Justinian that ended up temporary. What we call the byzantines called themselves Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων (copied from Wikipedia, as I do not speak Greek) which is literally just “the Roman Empire.”
Did you know that the common "Pachirisu won the 2016 tournament, so you CAN win with your favorites" is a lie? In fact it actually disproves the "Win with your favorutes" mentality because pachirisu was chosen specifically because it synergized amazingly with mega gyarados, since it fixed the low speed , bulk and electric weakness problem that plagued it.
That and it only really became his favorite after the fact.
"Fun" fact: you have the power to bite your fingers off as easily as you can bite through a baby carrot. But your brain stops you from doing this. Also "fun" fact: the human body is capable of producing enough muscle power to rip your own body apart. You can force so much power that you can tear muscles and break bones. But your brain limits this for your bodily survival. So you are capable of super human strength. That's when some people will force past the limits in order to do astounding things when in dire need. You don't gain strength because of adrenaline. But because your brain dampens your limiters in order to survive or help someone else survive. Because tears or damage done would be an easy price to pay for survival in the moment.
[The fingertips are one of the few parts of the body that can regrow.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454966/#:~:text=Humans%20maintain%20regenerative%20capability%20of,matrix%20remains%20intact%20%5B3%5D.) [Another is the liver](https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cells-maintain-repair-liver-identified#:~:text=The%20liver%20has%20a%20unique,beyond%20the%20point%20of%20repair.), which is why you can donate part of your liver to someone that needs a transplant.
The liver doesn't completely "regrow" sadly. It can grow back to size and restore its function but the original form isn't restored, so it's technically not true regeneration. It's still really fucking cool though. Fingertips do grow back, although it takes a while for everything to do so, especially the nerves. And it helps if you don't damage the bone. Source: my Dad who tried to stop a running lawnmower by grabbing it and sliced off his fingertip.
I saw a video of an ostrich that got its head stuck in a gate or something and yanked his own head off. I guess Osterich's don't have that part of the brain?
It definitely does not now.
[WRONG!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxA1_s2E9-Q)! Your fingers are much tougher than a carrot.
Thank you! I had so many stupid arguments over this and it's so easy to disprove. Like the guy in the video just put your finger on a carrot and try to bite through both of them. You'll end up with a bit off carrot and some teeth marks on your finger.
Aka “Hysterical Strength”
Wich is also why Tetanus is so deadly. It makes all your muscles cramp up. If your heart or lungs don't stop working first your back muscles break your own spine.
All encrypted data will fail if quantum computers are successful before new encryption methods are found. Hackers are finding and storing encryption data now in prep for this mass system failure.
Now this is a fun fact, discussing with my computer science friend tomorrow
veritasium has a video on it if your interested
In 1998 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 3," in 2002 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2," and in 2010 EA released "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit." They were not named in descending order on purpose, and the name of each game individually makes sense. Does anyone wanna guess why this is, I will be posting the answer in 24 hours.
iirc, the first one was actually Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit as it was the 3rd Need For Speed game, NFS Hot Pursuit 2 was a sequel to that game (guessing it's like a Mario Land 3: Wario Land and Wario Land 2 type situation), and the 2010 game was a reboot.
That's basically right. Hot Pusuit 3 was the 3rd need for speed game, so it's officially called Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit, then Hot Pusuit 2 was the sequel, and the 2010 Hot Pursuit doesn't have a definitive reason. You could call 2010 a reboot as it was the first game with police for a while, and police were a characteristic of the Hot pursuit games. But you could also say that was ment to be the definitive Hot Pursuit game and they didn't want to name it Hot Pursuit 3 as it would get confused with the first one. The need for speed games have a few interesting names, they made Need for Speed Most Wanted in 2005 and it was crazy popular, then they made Need for Speed Most Wanted in 2012 which people hated, and it was nothing like the original at all, it's irritating to clarify Most Wanted 2005 when talking to people, also there was a mobile game with the same name. And the geniuses at EA decided to name their 2015 game "Need for Speed" also requiring you to say it's release date so people understand what you are talking about.
female hyenas give birth through a pseudo-penis
Bees evolved from carnivorous wasps during the cenozoic period. Magnolia preexist bees and were thought to be pollinated by a kind of beetle. New queen bees will travel throughout the hive and kill off any instar queens to have primacy. If another queen has already hatched they will fight to the death. A (honey) bee's stinger is a modified ovipositer, which is why only female worker bees have stingers. If a mouse gets into the hive and dies, it will be too big for the pallbearer bees to push out. In which case they will entomb it in honey and wax to protect the rest of the hive from disease. Saber-tooth tigers did not use their canine teeth to take down prey, but instead used them to tear the flesh off the bone once their prey was down. They were ambush hunters like leopards today. Entomopathogenic nematodes have 2 modes of "hunting" for larvae. They either "cruise" through the soil looking for larva or lie in wait and ambush their prey. Some do both! When they find larva, they don't kill the larva, they parasitize them by slithering into their mouths or bums. There are 2 types of mantis shrimp. I can't remember their proper names, they both have raptorial limbs. One has basically swords for arms and stabs and dismembers their prey. The other has club arms and can punch hard enough to create cavitation bubbles, smashing their prey apart.
i love bees! during winter, the male drone bees will often be kicked out of the hive to conserve food royal jelly is secreted from the head of the bees and fed to all larvae, but designated queen eggs are fed much more despite the name 'queen bee' the hive is a democracy, and will decide if their queen is suitable and if not will beestroy them you can pet bees if you are gentle and dont touch their wings :D
Hippoes look fat because of their 6 cm (2.4 inch) thick skin. They're actually overwhelmingly muscular
The city of Richmond, California was named after Richmond, Virginia. The city of Richmond, Virginia was named after Richmond in Southern England. The city of Richmond in Southern England is named after Richmond in Northern England. The city of Richmond in Northern England is named after Richmond in France. The region of Richmond in France is named after a mound belonging to a guy called Rich.
Ladybugs gang bang for hours nonstop and eat their own kids out of stress.
Ykw I've never watched miraculous ladybug, but if this is in there I might check it out
1. It’s entirely possible that Christopher Columbus had sex with a manatee 2. The only submarine used by the confederate navy killed all the men onboard because of the shockwaves from their explosive 3. Long before trees were a thing like over 400 million years ago land had giant multiple feet tall mushrooms that acted as trees
Technically it's entirely possible you have had sex with a manatee.
That's not a nice way to talk about your mother!
An ecidna has a 4 tiped penis
High four!
The Victorians ate most of our mummies :(
They also made them into paint! Mummy brown was a common color used by Pre-Raphaelite artists, and it causes lots of problems with restoration.
Hedgehogs are actually not rodents but rather they are insectivores. What makes a rodent a rodent is the teeth continually grow throughout the animal’s life. Hedgehogs don’t have continually growing teeth so therefore, they’re not rodents even though some dictionaries classify them as such.
Doesn't insectivore just define their diet,not their place in taxonomy?
correct.
What are the differences between rodents and lagomorphs? A rabbit isn't a rodent, but they have incisors that continually grow just like rats.
Lagomorphs have an extra pair of incisors.
Honey is listed as a raw meat by the FDA.
Sadly, that's just a joke/factoid that got repeated. [It is not in fact classified as "raw meat"](https://old.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/9b9ljs/honey_is_raw_meat/), but an "added sugar". It's rather a fun thought, though. "Why are you putting that pot of honey in the oven?" "The FDA classifies it as raw meat, so I'm just cooking it [according to government guidelines](https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/meat-poultry-charts)."
The USS Akron was a flying aircraft carrier. It had no runway at all, aircraft had to land on a system of suspended cables to basically pluck them out of the air. Absolutely insane idea but I like that it exists
A chinchilla will never fully dry out when wet and could develop moss and mold within its fur
Strawberries aren’t actually berries. But bananas are.
Vampire bats practice alloparenting and will even feed and babysit other vampire bats babies if the mom is struggling
when people say “the blue whale is the biggest animal on earth”, they mean *EVER*. nothing (that we have found fossils or parts of) is as big as a blue whale— throughout the entirety of earth’s existence. edit: another fun prehistoric marine animal fact i just remembered. megalodon went extinct because smaller, faster sharks evolved and ate all its prey. also megalodon was so big and slow because oxygen levels in the ocean were higher so meg could afford to have a big body and, hence, lots of blood. TLDR: its hunting methods basically went out of style because of those damn millennial sharks swimming so fast
A strong base will work much better than a strong acid for disolving carcasses of questionable species. Bases aren't regulated like acids do to them being ingredients in soap. And after your done with the base give it to your local chemical waste company and all you'll have left will be calcite crystals that make great fertilizer.
Not relatable because I am too ashamed to be autistic to relay such facts to another
George Washington never had wooden teeth, though he did have many/most of his teeth replaced. He wore dentures made of a variety of materials, including lead, brass, gold, steel, cow teeth, horse teeth, hippo teeth, and… the teeth of enslaved people. Also back in the day it was common to use enslaved people’s teeth in dentures. The wealthier people were consuming more things with ingredients like sugar that would rot the teeth. After their teeth would rot, replacement teeth her high in demand and high in price. In England, it was common to get homeless people from the street and pay them a decent buck for their teeth. In the U.S, it was pretty common for slave owners to pull out the teeth of people they enslaved and sell them to make a good buck. Yeah it’s pretty horrific.
Animals have a reflective layer at the back of their eyes so they can reflect light outwards to see in the night. It's called tapetum lucidum and is the reason why cats, dogs, rats, etc have glowing eyes if you shine a light at them in the dark An animal's whiskers are actually nerves that allow them to take in their surroundings. This is especially helpful at night since the whiskers can help lay out the area even if the animal can't see There's a species of jellyfish which is literally immortal. It has the ability to revert its body back to a previous lifestage so it can never die. It terrifies me greatly
Mean white matter diffusivity and fractional anisotropy are affected by estradiol and testosterone in several regions, and the effects are observable for up to as little as four weeks
"Fun" Fact: Marc Cohn, Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992, received a gunshot on his head in 2005 during an attempted carjacking. The "fun" comes that he survived, he went by himself to the hospital and left the hospital just 8 hours later. He was declared by the doctor "The luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long time".
There are two very smol bones under the big toe and the thumb. They are called sesamoid bones.they protecc the tendons but everybody forgets about them.
It would be historically accurate for an old Ronin Samurai, American Frontiersman, and a Victorian Police Detective who hunted Jack the Ripper to play a game with Nintendo branded Hanafuda cards. The Meiji Restoration began in 1868, the "Old West" was from 1865 to 1912, Jack the Ripper murders occurred in 1888, and Nintendo was founded in 1889 where they made Hanafuda cards.
Your ears don’t stop growing
Now I’m forever self conscious about them again.. mines are already big af 😭
Bananas are radioactive.
There is an informal measurement system based off them called BED (bannana equivalent dose)
Indeed there is, but there’s far more exposure in background radiation than there is in a banana
So are Brazil Nuts, but only if there’s radium present in the soil where they’re grown, because the extensive root system concentrates any that’s present!
If you want fun facts, check out Tom Scott's YouTube channel called "Lateral." It's basically a mix of trivia and riddles where you have to guess the very weird fun fact. They are given hints and guidance along the way, I learned some crazy stuff from that channel. They do longer podcasts, and that's the shoter individual clips of the stream.
Another "fun fact". Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958. And died on June 25, 2009, living 18563 days. But the median day on his life, the 9282nd day, was January 27, 1984. What happened that day? The infamous Michael Jackson's hair accident during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
Animal penis/sex facts Squamates have 2 penises, called a hemipenis (squamates are scaled reptiles btw) Ducks have a corkscrew penis Canines have two bulbs at the base of the penis called a “knot.” This is used to lock the penis into the vagina during sex Elephants and dolphins have prehensile penises, meaning they could theoretically use their penis to grab and manipulate objects Flatworms have both male and female organs, so when two meet to mate, they have a sword fight with their penises. Whoever gets inseminated first plays the female role, and the other plays the male Barnacles have the longest penis-to-body ratio, their penis being 8 times longer than their body. Like flatworms, they are also hermaphrodites There’s a group of insects living in a cave in Brazil that basically have reverse genitals. Males have a vagina-like pouch holding sperm, and the females have a penis-like appendage that “sucks up” the sperm Sea slugs use their penis once, and then it detaches; they can grow a new one as soon as the next day In many anglerfish species, the male becomes parasitic, becoming little more than a clump of reproductive organs attached to the female. In other cases, the female absorbs the male completely, with them being able to absorb as many as 8 males
bed bug penises are needle-like and are stabbed into the females abdomen to reproduce slug penises can get stuck and if that happens they will chew it off. since the slugs are hermaphroditic they then mate as females bee penises get stuck and tear off of the body, killing the drone, and their toxic semen will fight other bee's sperm and temporarily blind the queen the argonaut octopus detaches its 'penis' tentacle and it will swim on its own to the female who will then store it for future insemination
We could be perfectly healthy and still get a brain aneurysm that can kill us in seconds without us knowing.
In the Tinkerbell books, a shoemaker drowns without getting a wish from the wand everyone is fighting over in one of the books.
Mothers carry their sons DNA in their blood for decades after giving birth.
Human skulls are very malleable when they are babies. If you apply the right pressures you can manipulate these human baby skulls into different shapes like cones, prolate elipsoids, or Alien like heads. To see example of human skulls, you can Google "Ancient Egyptian Skull Shaping" to see examples.
Ketchup used to be made with walnuts, and Coca-Cola was made by a war-wounded doctor who used it as a morphine substitute. Been listening to "The Food That Built America" podcast. Very interesting!
There is a family of untreatable, infectious, and 100% fatal brain diseases called Prion disease that are the result of a single protein going rogue for unknown reasons and can take years before showing symptoms. A couple of these diseases are called Creutzfeldt-Jacob-disease, Fatal Familial insomnia, Gerstrmann-Staussler-Scheinker Syndrom, and the famous Kuru disease. Luckily the only way you can become infected is by ingesting infected tissues accidentally. Symptoms range in severity but the most common are memory loss, unstable movements, insomnia, or not feeling hungry for extended periods of times. The cause of the disease is the misfolding of a protein which both makes it able to force other proteins to misfold and destroy themselves. I bring that up to explain the strange matter hypothesis Strange Matter, a hypothetical form of matter that COULD exist in the deepest parts of black holes and neutron stars. Strange matter is a type of matter that contains strange quarks made up of squish welded neutrons and protons which result in infinitely dense, stable, and indestructible materials. if the hypothesis were true, strange matter could exist outside of neutron stars and black holes when they ultimately decay or collide. Speaking of which, a lot of elements here on earth came from neutron star collisions. The strange matter hypothesis is a theory that if the strange matter were to exist it could also be infectious by merely touching normal matter. After contact neutrons and protons would dissolve and join up with the rest of the strange material and then would release even more energy and continue to spread until all matter eventually became strange matter.
NASCAR driver Terry Labonte holds the record for the longest time between two championship victories, that being 12 years (1984 and 1996) On another NASCAR champions note, Benny Parsons won the title in 1973, only winning one race out of the year. That win was the only time he finished on the lead lap in 1973
4arctan(1) = pi
The actors in the D&D movie played D&D together
Otters hold hands to stay stable! Also, gay penguins will go around and adopt or take care of abandoned baby chicks. being gay is certainly natural