The dot above the letter i is called a tittle.
The things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets
The thing at the back of your throat is called the. “Hangy downy thingy”
Opossums have 13 nipples
Additional fun fact about nipples:
In mammals, a species’ typical litter size is one less than their normal number of nipples.
So do tri-nipped women have twins more often? Inquiring minds want to know!
the reason you fart and shit at the same time is because shit and air is coming out of your ass
I just touched my nose. Until I posted this, I was the only person who knew this fact.
But I’ll give you one of my favourite obscure-ish fact instead: baby sloths are so inept, they sometimes mistake their own limbs for tree branches, grab hold of them with one limb, let go of the actual branch, and fall out of the tree
Naw. Steve, the FBI agent assigned to you, and Dave, my roomie, were just discussing it.
I think Steve kinda likes you…
Barnacles, relative to body size, have the longest penises in the world
The tsetse fly has the longest sperm, regardless of body size.
licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets
what planet? I never heard of this. Wait. Its orion isn’t it.
The tiniest park in the USA is located on a city street corner in Portland, Oregon. Mill Ends Park
The older editions are lot more encyclopaedia like too, some super detailed descriptions of things like cars - right down to the gear ratios.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray weren’t the only HD video disc formats competing for dominance in the '00s. HD VMD which was basically a DVD containing more layers unsuccessfully tried to compete with the two. The company who produced it dissolved in 2008 and only a few titles were ever released on the format.
There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.
it’s so easy to break into an apartment in south korea, any basement dweller can do this.
A lot of people know of the April Fools 418 I’m a Teapot error code, but did you know there’s a full Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol from the same RFC for running a coffee pot server? It even includes an HTCPCP method named “WHEN” to let the pot know it has poured enough cream.
Dogs can’t look up
just because Big Al says so…
That’s sheep
Chinese scientists worked to create the “humanzee,” a human-chimpanzee hybrid in the '60s. Female chimpanzees were impregnated with human sperm. The experiment was cut short by the Cultural Revolution - the scientists were sent to labor camps and a three-months pregnant chimpanzee died of neglect. The Soviets attempted a similar program in the '20s.
Seriously find a source. a three month pregnant chimpanzee, pregnant with a humanzee, died of neglect? Sure, Humanzee experiments were attempted but because of how biology works, two species as different as a chimpanzee and a human cannot make children.
Peking (KNT) -Chinese at one time experimented with fertilizing a chimpanzee with human sperm in an attempt to create a “near -human ape,” and they may try it again. The chimp was three months pregnant before the first experiment was halted, one of the original researchers claims. Western science long has scoffed at such an experiment as medically impossible, but Dr. Ji Yongxiang says the research, if it ever resumes, has the potential to develop creatures with higher animal intelligence who could speak and perform simple tasks. A second researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science said there were plans to resume testing.
It is scientifically impossible for species as different as chimpanzees and humans to mate.
This sounds like a bunch of b***shit so I had to look it up. Seems like you’re actually right… 😳
Diamonds aren’t stable and will eventually, over billions of years, decompose from their cubic molecular structure to carbon’s more stable form, graphite, which has a hexagonal molecular structure.
Oh, here’s another good gemstone related one!
Amethyst and citrine are both quartz varieties, and if the color source happens to be from traces of iron in the crystal lattice, one can be turned into the other. Heating amethyst can make citrine, and irradiating citrine can turn it into amethyst. This is because the only actual difference between the two is the valiance level of a specific election in the iron atom giving the stone its color.
hexagonal molecular structure
You know, I think I’ve heard something about hexagons on the internet before …
So if i bake a piece of amethyst in my oven i get cutrin, or we are talking about much greater temperatures?
NGL I’m not very familiar with the technical details, but I know quartz is pretty temperature sensitive and starts to get damaged about 400F iirc
It’s possible special conditions are needed to really succeed, like low/no oxygen or a long duration at a lower temperature.
But theoretically, the answer to your question is “yes”
That’s cool AF :3
Fun fact, you can, in fact, make sourdough with the yeast from a yeast infection, and bake with it.
Wasn’t a fan. Gave it a bit of a fishy taste
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the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 3⁄32 in railway in the world.
For a minute I thought that meant the railway was ~3ft long
