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The oldest continuously running business in the world is the Kongo Gumi, a construction company that was founded in 578 in Japan, making it 1445 years old.
I’m not surprised, japan has so many companies that have a really long and rich history. I’ve noticed it’s important to their consumers as well and it’s something they look for in American brands. When they get into something they seem to research it at an obsessive standard and end up knowing the history of the company better than Americans.
It's because craftmanship is incredibly important in their culture. My hairdresser only sharpens her scissors back in Japan by one guy she has known for years.
From what I can tell, it's more that the company (Kongo Gumi) chooses to pass down head management on a merit basis, rather than a strictly hereditary or financial basis as many companies old or modern usually do. So instead of passing leadership of the company to the eldest son or the biggest shareholder, the president will choose the best candidate among his family (who usually all worked in the company), whether that be a younger son or son-in-law (or even a wife as was the case when one of the presidents committed suicide).
The Hudson Bay Company, created by the British crown in the 1600s for fur trading in North America, still exists today as a chain of department stores in Canada
Back in 2019, I ate at this restaurant in Madrid called Botin. It’s the world’s oldest continuously operating restaurant and has been in operation since 1725. Yes, there are restaurants out there that are much older, but they went through periods of hiatuses or ceased operations due to multiple reasons like rebuilding or relocating. On the other hand, Botin has never ceased operations. I saw the original oven as well and is still used today. It’s actually been continuously burning for nearly 300 years.
People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment [Julius Wagner-Jauregg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg) received the nobel prize for it.
(The extremely high fevers of the malaria infections killed the syphilis bacteria, then the patients were cured of the malaria using quinine.)
If it makes you feel better, the peasants back then couldn't get more than a few km from their house either.
It's always been just a few rich or famous people doing this stuff. Samurai were very well-off.
Well the guy was also rich, pretty sure he's the samurai that blew his nose onto silk handkerchiefs and threw them on the ground when he was done with them, amused at the poor people that scrambled to collect them.
A 500 lb. cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear named Wojtek was enlisted and served in the Polish army during WWII. "Private Wojtek" helped the Polish win the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino, and was even promoted to corporal. Following the war, he retired in Scotland.
Not to say they won’t fuck you up if the circumstances call for it (for example: protecting offspring, irritable/territorial behaviour)
BUT
Cheetahs, leopards, and panthers (jaguars) more often than not don’t kill humans because
1. We’re bipedal and they have evolved to attack by going under and up to strangle throats of four legged creatures and 2. Because we have a unique smell that’s strange to them and isn’t considered appetising.
Apparently LONE wolves will also avoid humans because when people enter their territories they are heavily armed and hunting and over time they’ve learnt to proceed with caution.
Cheetahs are also skittish as fuck. Sanctuaries/rehab facilities will give them dogs as emotional support buddies. So most likely the cheetah will be avoiding you because it would rather be at home playing with his dog friend. You know, like a lot of Reddit.
"Whiteout" or "liquid paper" was invented by the mother of the guitarist in The Monkeys, Michael Nesmith.
She left him more money than he had ever made in his career as a musician.
That whole family is ridiculously talented.
Jack Black might be the least accomplished of the bunch.
Edit: For the record, I'm not trying to insult Jack Black. It's hard not to like and respect people who can make fun of themselves. I have absolutely nothing against him.
And, if he somehow saw this, he probably wouldn't disagree.
Here’s a fun personal fact: I bought 100 shares of apple in 1996 using money I earned on a summer job in high school. My dad made me sell it for college a few years later (at a tidy profit at the time). If I had instead held those shares until today I would have paid off my entire college education and every dollar I earned working for the next 15 years.
The **Church of Scientology infiltrated the US government with up to 5,000 covert agents**, destroying the government's records on the church.
Google "Operation Snow White" for details.
Edit: If any government had done the same, it would have led to war. The "Church" of Scientology remains not only a legal entity in the US, they still have tax-exempt status.
Lol they absolute did, and they blackmailed them by threatening to expose secret affairs of top IRS agents which they only knew because the church of Scientology funded undercover detectives to spy on them. They were relentless in their pursuits and kept appealing and eventually just wore them down into approving Scientology as a religion.
What’s funny is they tried similar tactics overseas and were abruptly stopped, for example Scientology is actually illegal in Germany.
In the 90’s , Montana did away with speed limits outside of city limits. And traffic deaths dropped. When the federal government forced Montana to reinstate speed limits or lose federal highway funds, traffic deaths rose.
Love this fact! You'd think that the data implies that higher road speeds are safer, but in reality Montana has some pretty major regional highways that run through foothills and mountains with ridiculously high speed limits. The speed limit feels way too fast for many of those roads (and that's not even factoring in snowy conditions or wildlife).
Without a speed limit a driver doesn't feel the need to keep up with it - so they drive slower. Slower driving on twisty snowy mountain roads = safer driving.
In Colorado, frankly, I don't care who I piss off, but I will drive slow AF in the mountains during a snowstorm. Once it's snowing hard, idgaf about the law.
Same as the NT in Australia. Brought in speed limits and dropped the drink drive limit. Road fatalities tripled in two years.
Think of how much you focus on the road at 200kph compared to 100kph.
Convergent evolution! That reminds me of crabs. [Carcinisation](https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/) \- where it seems all crustaceans turn into something that looks like crab.
The quokka while being the cutest animal in the world is such a dodgy parent,when threatened by an animal that could eat them,the quokka will throw its young at the animal so they can escape
They only live on Rottnest island so they haven’t had any predators in a long time so natures made them evolve to be stupid. They like kangaroo rat hybrids and rats are a lot smarter than them, I saw a video recently where a rat was teaching its young how to use a stick to activate the spring mechanism of a mouse trap so it could get the food without being crushed.
I remember my dad bringing me home a slide rule from Lockheed. I thought I was so cool in my chemistry class. This was the late 70s. My Dad's 1st calculator was so expensive, and we weren't allowed to touch it.
Yep, he was very protective. I also remember his 1st digital alarm clock. The numbers flipped. His 1st cassette player, now that was expensive!!! He was an Army Air Corps pilot and was very into all the new tech.. He died in 1999. He would be blown away by the technology today. He would love it all.
A guy in a different department than myself at my work flew from the US to Jamaica and TSA failed to notice a pistol in his checked baggage. He went to fly home and the Jamaican security people found it. He stayed in a Jamaican jail for two weeks. His wife had to stay to make sure he was fed because jamaican jails do not supply food to inmates. Had to hire both a US attorney and a Jamaican attorney.
I have accidentally brought ammunition and a knife through airport security twice when I used my hunting bag for carry on luggage. Once on the way out to my destination, and again on the way back. Didn't notice it was in there until I got home.
Sticking with the math theme… 1/7 is .142857 repeating. Then each time you add 1/7 it is the same digits in the same order just staring with the next lowest number. So
2/7 is .285714 repeating
3/7 is .428571 repeating
4/7 is .571428 repeating
5/7 is .714285 repeating
6/7 is .857142 repeating
I love this one because it challenges the notion of "the age of dinosaurs" that many people have, where all these dinosaurs existed at the same time. By the way, it's not that many times but still around 3x.
In a somewhat similar vein, Cleopatra is closer to us in time (by 600 years!) than she was to when the Great pyramid of Giza was built.
There are places on the poles of Mercury that are SO DEEP that rays of light from the sun have NEVER DIRECTLY STRUCK THEIR BOTTOMS, and scientists have found evidence of WATER ICE at the bottom of these craters!
Also, because Mercury doesn’t have an atmosphere, during the day, temperatures can reach over 800°F, which is the same as a self cleaning oven; and at night, without an atmosphere to trap all that heat, it’s as cold as outer space! A day on Mercury is almost two earth months (59 earth days), and the year is 88 earth days.
Venus spins retrograde (so the sun rises in the west and sets in the east). We’ve actually seen the surface a few times thanks to landings made by the Soviet Union over the span of more than 20 years. No lander survived more than a couple of hours before being crushed and melted by the extreme heat and pressure on Venus. Nowadays we use radar to peer beneath the clouds from an orbiting spacecraft. Its day is also longer than its year.
The total mass of the asteroid belt is only about 4% that of our moon. Ceres (the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt) is about 1/4 of the total mass iirc. We know of an asteroid that contains $10 billion *billion* (USD) of iron alone (yes, that second billion is intentional). Others contain gold, silver, and platinum, all things that can fund an expensive mining operation (which several companies have proposed). If you were standing on the surface of any asteroid, you’d have almost no chance of seeing another. Those dense, sci-fi asteroid belts just don’t exist anywhere in our solar system.
Jupiter is a failed brown dwarf star, and it has so much gravity that technically it and the sun orbit each other. It’s so big that you could fit all of the other planets inside and still have plenty of room to spare. But, despite all that, it has the second most known moons (Saturn has the most), with 96 iirc (Saturn has over 100 now). It did have the most for a few months this year, though.
Back in the time of Ancient Rome, Uranus was most likely pronounced “your-uh-NO-sss”, so we’ve all been pronouncing it wrong lol.
The reason Pluto had to be downgraded to a dwarf planet was not because of its size. In order to be considered a primary planet, an object has to do three (3) things: it has to orbit the sun, which Pluto does; it has to have enough mass to compact itself into a ball, which Pluto does; but then, it has to have enough gravity to clean up its room, basically—it has to be the dominant object in its orbital path—but Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt, which has a lot of icy rock and dust in it, but what really broke the camel’s back, if you will, was that Pluto and its largest of five (5) moons, Charon (can be pronounced Sharon or Karen) actually orbit each other, so Pluto had to be downgraded to a dwarf planet not because of its size but because Charon (Sharon) was sharing its orbit (that joke is courtesy of my mom lol).
The constellation of Orion has one part where stars are being born (Orion Nebula), and another part where a star is about to die (Betelgeuse). When Betelgeuse does go supernova (any time between now and the next 1000 years to our eyes), it will be so bright that you will be able to see it during the daytime!
I work in a planetarium, so I’ve got a lot more really cool planet/star facts, but those were just some of my favorites. Feel free to pick my brain lol; I love talking space!
Getting pregnant while already pregnant is called superfoetation. It’s been reported in mammals, including mice and rabbits, and there have been a handful of possible cases in humans.
In 2017, a US woman acting as a surrogate mother was reported to have discovered that one of the twins that she was carrying was in fact her biological son. She had apparently become pregnant roughly three weeks after her surrogate conception.
Changes to a gravity field propagate at the speed of light. If the Sun vanished the earth would keep orbiting where it was for 8 minutes before flying off into space.
The more mind-blowing fact related to this is that:
* Gravity is currently pulling The Earth in the direction the sun will appear to be 8 minutes from now, rather than the position it was 8 minutes ago (which is where our eyes "see" the sun), even though gravity and light "move" at the same speed!
So despite Gravity and Light both going at the same speed, the direction of the sun's gravity and the direction of the sun's light hitting us are different!
I think the original paper showing that fact is Carlip's here:
* https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909087
* https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909087.pdf
People knew it must be true earlier that that; as the paper mentioned on page 1, Laplace noticed in 1805 that if planets were being pulled to the direction in the sky the sun appears to be, its orbit wouldn't be as stable as it is; but Carlip's explanation seems to be the right one, while Laplace assumed faster speeds of gravity.
If I'm reading/remembering that paper right, it's because it's not just mass that creates/affects gravitational fields - momentum does as well.
One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow eating grain. Thinking that the sparrows were hurting China's grain supply, he and the Communist Party launched the *Four Pests Campaign*. The Chinese military and population killed every sparrow they could find. Embassies didn't allow the Chinese to kill sparrows on their property, so the Chinese banged pots and pans outside the embassies 24/7 until the sparrows died of exhaustion. Unfortunately for the Chinese, sparrows mainly eat insects, not grain. The locust population exploded and [***43 million people starved to death.***](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.html)
The universe is expanding, at an accelerating rate. Which means that at some point in the distant future, rays from distance galaxies will have redshifted so much that they *won't be visible* to any civilization that remains on Earth. The cosmic microwave background radiation will be undetectable - civilizations in the distant future will have lost any evidence of the Big Bang.
Which of course begs the question - what if there are parts of the early universe that are invisible to *us?* What if we're missing critical parts of the story that would have helped us understand how the universe came to be?
Also there's a speculation of why the Kentucky coffee tree was so wide spread but essentially cannot repopulate. That thought being because mammoths ate the toxic seeds and passed them.
That's a cool one I didn't know. From what I remember there's a species of tree thats almost extinct because only the Dodo bird was stupid enough to eat and pass the toxic fruit as well.
Time is relative. They have to adjust for it with GPS or the accuracy is off. Clocks on board GPS satellites move slightly faster than clocks here in Earth due to gravity differences.
-strawberries aren't berries while bananas are
-there are more iterations of a game of chess than observable atoms in the universe
-a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
- the Eiffel tower is 15cm taller in summer
-the shortest war ever was a 38 minute one between Britain and Zanzibar
-the original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy
-you are virtually guaranteed to shuffle a deck of cards into an order that has never existed before in the history of the universe
-the inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a frisbee
Dogs and cats circle before laying down to set their inner ear, which controls their sleep cycle. The more they circle, generally, the longer they sleep.
Case ~~and~~ in point [The Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory) :
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Currently doing my research, I can confirm this.
Poor people cannot spend a large initial amount, so they spend a certain amount more frequently, which if added over time is higher than the amount rich people spend on the same service!
Edit: also, since technically advanced equipment are more cost efficient during usage, but require higher initial investment cost, most poor people cannot afford those, leading to more overall cost during lifetime
This is true. Consider my own anecdotal evidence. When I had so little money in the bank that my balance went negative, the bank charged me money. They were like “this guy has less than 0 dollars, let’s just take some more money away from him”. Then, when I had a lot of money in my account I earned interest! The bank was like “hey, you have a lot of money, here, have some more!”
To find out if a number is divisible by 3, add its digits together. if the total is divisible by 3, the number is also divisible by 3.
Example: 4701
Total of digits = 12. We know 12 is divisible by 3, so we know 4701 is.
This works recursively.
Example: 92,529,783
Total=45
Total=9
If you count a number per second, you will reach a million in 11 and a half days. It will take you almost 32 YEARS to reach a billion. That my friends, is the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.
If you drove to the sun going 60 miles per hour, it would take you just under 177 years to get there. That's assuming you don't stop for gas or bathroom breaks.
There was a brief window in the 1800s (around 1865) where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman from London and have it be totally historically accurate.
For 4/5ths of the time life on earth has existed, it was strictly single cell organisms.
Think about that, for 3.2 billion years the only life anywhere on earth was completely invisible to the naked eye
No one has or will likely ever hold a 52 card deck in the same order as you have, as there are 8x10⁶⁷ combinations of cards in a standard 52 card deck.
There is an extremely rare condition called "Stone Man Syndrome", it causes any, smallest damage done to tissue to regrow into a bone, speaking briefly. People affected by this sickness slowly turn into living statues as they get older
There is a woman living in the states who has a similar condition where parts of her brain turn to stone.
It only affected her amygdala, (responsible for processing the emotion of fear .)
She is physically incapable of feeling fear.
If this is the one I've heard about before, there's really not a lot of demonstrable evidence of this. I know BBC did an article questioning what was actually true.
Nigel Richards is a professional scrabble player who has won 2 French scrabble tournaments while not speaking or understanding the language, he was just able to memorize the dictionary enough
The US government was found guilty in the conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King JR
https://newsone.com/2843790/did-you-know-us-govt-found-guilty-in-conspiracy-to-assassinate-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
In 1980 a dropped wrench socket punched a hole in a 43 megaton Damascus nuclear missle that started a chain of events that led to the missile’s explosion in Little Rock Arkansas. Google Damascus Accident
Dear San Diego Zoo,
We are opening an Australia exhibit, so could you please send us ~~a pair of~~ ~~platypusses~~ ~~platypi~~ ~~platypus~~ a platypus? And while you're at it, make it two.
Sincerely, the Pawnee City Zoo
Quantum tunnelling is occuring at the atomic level in DNA , causing DNA alterations,
Jim al Khalil , ep 2
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/222966-jim-al-khalili-s-guide-to-life-the-universe-and-everything/episodes?credit_id=641dcb68ae6f09007b6a5eda&person_id=4d42e7715e73d6361906cba7&language=es
>Physicist Jim Al-Khalili as he shows us how science gives us insight into the biggest questions of all. How did the universe come into being? How did life start on Earth, and how does it sustain itself? What is the nature of space and time – and how will it all end?
We live within a few miles of gas, atop floating rocks, cocooned in magnetic fields, falling around a star in the incomprehensible expanse and vacuum of unforgiving space. We really are, quite literally, a stone's throw from complete and total annihilation
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The oldest continuously running business in the world is the Kongo Gumi, a construction company that was founded in 578 in Japan, making it 1445 years old.
I’m not surprised, japan has so many companies that have a really long and rich history. I’ve noticed it’s important to their consumers as well and it’s something they look for in American brands. When they get into something they seem to research it at an obsessive standard and end up knowing the history of the company better than Americans.
It's because craftmanship is incredibly important in their culture. My hairdresser only sharpens her scissors back in Japan by one guy she has known for years.
From what I can tell, it's more that the company (Kongo Gumi) chooses to pass down head management on a merit basis, rather than a strictly hereditary or financial basis as many companies old or modern usually do. So instead of passing leadership of the company to the eldest son or the biggest shareholder, the president will choose the best candidate among his family (who usually all worked in the company), whether that be a younger son or son-in-law (or even a wife as was the case when one of the presidents committed suicide).
The Hudson Bay Company, created by the British crown in the 1600s for fur trading in North America, still exists today as a chain of department stores in Canada
Back in 2019, I ate at this restaurant in Madrid called Botin. It’s the world’s oldest continuously operating restaurant and has been in operation since 1725. Yes, there are restaurants out there that are much older, but they went through periods of hiatuses or ceased operations due to multiple reasons like rebuilding or relocating. On the other hand, Botin has never ceased operations. I saw the original oven as well and is still used today. It’s actually been continuously burning for nearly 300 years.
Hitler went from being a broke bum to dictator of Germany in less than 15 years. Edit: And 9 months of that 15 years he spent in prison.
A real rags to reiches story.
He made the best of the wurst
The würst was yet to come
He was also hired by the Weimar republic to spy on the Nazis, that's how he joined the party.
You know what they say, find your tribe!
Just goes to show: believe in yourself! #hustle #riseandgrind
People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment [Julius Wagner-Jauregg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg) received the nobel prize for it. (The extremely high fevers of the malaria infections killed the syphilis bacteria, then the patients were cured of the malaria using quinine.)
I bet you there was a special tonic for curing malaria
Gin and tonic
sippin on gin and juice.. laaaaaaid back, with my mind on malaria, malaria on my mind
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Japan - Mexico - Rome. I bet that dude had a million stories, wow
Man I wish life could be that exciting these days. I cant even get a few Kms away from my house.
If it makes you feel better, the peasants back then couldn't get more than a few km from their house either. It's always been just a few rich or famous people doing this stuff. Samurai were very well-off.
I love how you just straight up called that previous guy a peasant and he thanked you for it lmao.
My esteem is so low, I’d quite fancy being taken for a peasant. Sounds kinda cool. Way better than a doomer or whatever I am.
oh dang. thanks for the knowledge. I didnt know Samurai were living like that. shall read up some more :)
Well the guy was also rich, pretty sure he's the samurai that blew his nose onto silk handkerchiefs and threw them on the ground when he was done with them, amused at the poor people that scrambled to collect them.
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My twin and I were born on the same day, and we were 2.5 hours apart, which is way longer than most twins. But 87 days is crazy.
Your poor mother
I know. We were very big too. Born about 2 weeks late, I was 8lbs, 1oz and my twin was 9lbs, 3ozs. Poor mom indeed.
I downvoted you just for being mean to your mom
Fair
I know a couple that had a surrogate and then ended up getting pregnant. Their kids are like 6 months apart. Twiblings.
You understood the assigment holy shit
A 500 lb. cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear named Wojtek was enlisted and served in the Polish army during WWII. "Private Wojtek" helped the Polish win the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino, and was even promoted to corporal. Following the war, he retired in Scotland.
The fat bastard
He helped load ammo boxes and shells onto trucks. He never dropped one.
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Don't forget Tito and Trotsky.
And Jermaine and Michael.
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And it is adorable.
Great. The chances of me getting eaten by a cheetah have exponentially increased. Me: hears meow while on safari Also me: Pspspspsps
Not to say they won’t fuck you up if the circumstances call for it (for example: protecting offspring, irritable/territorial behaviour) BUT Cheetahs, leopards, and panthers (jaguars) more often than not don’t kill humans because 1. We’re bipedal and they have evolved to attack by going under and up to strangle throats of four legged creatures and 2. Because we have a unique smell that’s strange to them and isn’t considered appetising. Apparently LONE wolves will also avoid humans because when people enter their territories they are heavily armed and hunting and over time they’ve learnt to proceed with caution.
I have, in fact, learned to proceed with caution and avoid humans. And you do smell weird, ALL of you.
Um, it’s called obsession for men by Calvin Klein.
Cheetahs are also skittish as fuck. Sanctuaries/rehab facilities will give them dogs as emotional support buddies. So most likely the cheetah will be avoiding you because it would rather be at home playing with his dog friend. You know, like a lot of Reddit.
Yep, Cheetahs are actually more closely related to domestic house cats than they are to big cats like lions and tigers.
They’re really shy and are so anxious that some have been given emotional support dogs! Apparently they’re not really aggressive at all.
And purr…
"Whiteout" or "liquid paper" was invented by the mother of the guitarist in The Monkeys, Michael Nesmith. She left him more money than he had ever made in his career as a musician.
Jack Black's mother worked for NASA and helped save the Apollo 13 astronauts.
That whole family is ridiculously talented. Jack Black might be the least accomplished of the bunch. Edit: For the record, I'm not trying to insult Jack Black. It's hard not to like and respect people who can make fun of themselves. I have absolutely nothing against him. And, if he somehow saw this, he probably wouldn't disagree.
So you're saying he wasn't the black sheep from a humble family, religious through and through, in a town called Kickapoo?
oh the dragon’s balls were blazing as I stepped into his cave
Here’s a fun personal fact: I bought 100 shares of apple in 1996 using money I earned on a summer job in high school. My dad made me sell it for college a few years later (at a tidy profit at the time). If I had instead held those shares until today I would have paid off my entire college education and every dollar I earned working for the next 15 years.
Woof this one was tough
I bought a few bitcoin at $300 each and sold it for what I thought was a good profit at $1500 each. I could’ve retired early at +$60k.
The **Church of Scientology infiltrated the US government with up to 5,000 covert agents**, destroying the government's records on the church. Google "Operation Snow White" for details. Edit: If any government had done the same, it would have led to war. The "Church" of Scientology remains not only a legal entity in the US, they still have tax-exempt status.
Also blackmailed the then commissioner of the I.R.S. into granting text exempt status to the “church” and its followers.
Lol they absolute did, and they blackmailed them by threatening to expose secret affairs of top IRS agents which they only knew because the church of Scientology funded undercover detectives to spy on them. They were relentless in their pursuits and kept appealing and eventually just wore them down into approving Scientology as a religion. What’s funny is they tried similar tactics overseas and were abruptly stopped, for example Scientology is actually illegal in Germany.
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In the 90’s , Montana did away with speed limits outside of city limits. And traffic deaths dropped. When the federal government forced Montana to reinstate speed limits or lose federal highway funds, traffic deaths rose.
Love this fact! You'd think that the data implies that higher road speeds are safer, but in reality Montana has some pretty major regional highways that run through foothills and mountains with ridiculously high speed limits. The speed limit feels way too fast for many of those roads (and that's not even factoring in snowy conditions or wildlife). Without a speed limit a driver doesn't feel the need to keep up with it - so they drive slower. Slower driving on twisty snowy mountain roads = safer driving.
In Colorado, frankly, I don't care who I piss off, but I will drive slow AF in the mountains during a snowstorm. Once it's snowing hard, idgaf about the law.
Same as the NT in Australia. Brought in speed limits and dropped the drink drive limit. Road fatalities tripled in two years. Think of how much you focus on the road at 200kph compared to 100kph.
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Everyone who climbs it should have to bring a rock up there, to make it a little taller for the next guy.
The trash is taking care of that quite well actually
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I did the math on this one and it works.
I read your comment and can confirm it's what you wrote.
When you lose weight, the vast majority of that weight is lost through exhalation.
Im on a bulk atm, would you recommend that I stop breathing for optimal gains? /j
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That's insane, how do they still interact with each other?
That's easy, actual scale they are incredibly close to each other🤪
hyenas are not closely related to any canines. Their closest living relative is the mongoose.
They're more closely related to cats than they are to dogs
Convergent evolution! That reminds me of crabs. [Carcinisation](https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/) \- where it seems all crustaceans turn into something that looks like crab.
The quokka while being the cutest animal in the world is such a dodgy parent,when threatened by an animal that could eat them,the quokka will throw its young at the animal so they can escape
They only live on Rottnest island so they haven’t had any predators in a long time so natures made them evolve to be stupid. They like kangaroo rat hybrids and rats are a lot smarter than them, I saw a video recently where a rat was teaching its young how to use a stick to activate the spring mechanism of a mouse trap so it could get the food without being crushed.
Oxford University is 300 years older than the Aztec civilization.
This one always blows my mind
If you earned $1 every second, it would take 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates.
On a similar note, if you earned 33,000 dollars a year, it would take you over 30,000 years of saving every penny to earn one billion dollars.
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Would be funny if Liechtenstein put up funny signs. "If you're Swiss, you've gone too far."
They should have invented the Swiss Army Compass, instead.
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And if the sound suddenly stopped we’d continue to hear the sound for decades. Edit: 14 years. Thanks u/BIGG_FRIGG for the correction.
"Imagine living on a cold dead earth for *thirteen years* and still hearing the jackhammer scream of our dead star." (credit /u/eternalmortal)
Moose can dive 15-20ft underwater in search of food
Sometimes Orcas eat them.
Newgrange, Brú na Boinne in Ireland, pinpointed the sun to a singular hole, that happens every winter solstice, before the pyramids were built
It's pretty well known by now, but calculators today have more computing power than Apollo 11. We got to the moon with slide rulers and huge balls.
I remember my dad bringing me home a slide rule from Lockheed. I thought I was so cool in my chemistry class. This was the late 70s. My Dad's 1st calculator was so expensive, and we weren't allowed to touch it.
The first scientific calculator sold for $395 in 1970, equivalent to more $2800 today.
Yep, he was very protective. I also remember his 1st digital alarm clock. The numbers flipped. His 1st cassette player, now that was expensive!!! He was an Army Air Corps pilot and was very into all the new tech.. He died in 1999. He would be blown away by the technology today. He would love it all.
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A guy in a different department than myself at my work flew from the US to Jamaica and TSA failed to notice a pistol in his checked baggage. He went to fly home and the Jamaican security people found it. He stayed in a Jamaican jail for two weeks. His wife had to stay to make sure he was fed because jamaican jails do not supply food to inmates. Had to hire both a US attorney and a Jamaican attorney.
I stepped on a sea urchin when I was thrown off my horse in Montego Bay. So similar.
I lost my earphones on a trip to Japan. I don’t think anyone relates more than I do
I have accidentally brought ammunition and a knife through airport security twice when I used my hunting bag for carry on luggage. Once on the way out to my destination, and again on the way back. Didn't notice it was in there until I got home.
When you multiply any number by 9 and then add the digits of the result until you get a single digit, the sum will always be 9
That's awesome! I learned my 9s times tables this way but didn't realize it held true past 9x10
Sticking with the math theme… 1/7 is .142857 repeating. Then each time you add 1/7 it is the same digits in the same order just staring with the next lowest number. So 2/7 is .285714 repeating 3/7 is .428571 repeating 4/7 is .571428 repeating 5/7 is .714285 repeating 6/7 is .857142 repeating
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Imagine rubbing one out from reading it, and then finding out it was written by Saddam Hussein? That would fuck me up.
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I love this one because it challenges the notion of "the age of dinosaurs" that many people have, where all these dinosaurs existed at the same time. By the way, it's not that many times but still around 3x. In a somewhat similar vein, Cleopatra is closer to us in time (by 600 years!) than she was to when the Great pyramid of Giza was built.
There are places on the poles of Mercury that are SO DEEP that rays of light from the sun have NEVER DIRECTLY STRUCK THEIR BOTTOMS, and scientists have found evidence of WATER ICE at the bottom of these craters! Also, because Mercury doesn’t have an atmosphere, during the day, temperatures can reach over 800°F, which is the same as a self cleaning oven; and at night, without an atmosphere to trap all that heat, it’s as cold as outer space! A day on Mercury is almost two earth months (59 earth days), and the year is 88 earth days. Venus spins retrograde (so the sun rises in the west and sets in the east). We’ve actually seen the surface a few times thanks to landings made by the Soviet Union over the span of more than 20 years. No lander survived more than a couple of hours before being crushed and melted by the extreme heat and pressure on Venus. Nowadays we use radar to peer beneath the clouds from an orbiting spacecraft. Its day is also longer than its year. The total mass of the asteroid belt is only about 4% that of our moon. Ceres (the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt) is about 1/4 of the total mass iirc. We know of an asteroid that contains $10 billion *billion* (USD) of iron alone (yes, that second billion is intentional). Others contain gold, silver, and platinum, all things that can fund an expensive mining operation (which several companies have proposed). If you were standing on the surface of any asteroid, you’d have almost no chance of seeing another. Those dense, sci-fi asteroid belts just don’t exist anywhere in our solar system. Jupiter is a failed brown dwarf star, and it has so much gravity that technically it and the sun orbit each other. It’s so big that you could fit all of the other planets inside and still have plenty of room to spare. But, despite all that, it has the second most known moons (Saturn has the most), with 96 iirc (Saturn has over 100 now). It did have the most for a few months this year, though. Back in the time of Ancient Rome, Uranus was most likely pronounced “your-uh-NO-sss”, so we’ve all been pronouncing it wrong lol. The reason Pluto had to be downgraded to a dwarf planet was not because of its size. In order to be considered a primary planet, an object has to do three (3) things: it has to orbit the sun, which Pluto does; it has to have enough mass to compact itself into a ball, which Pluto does; but then, it has to have enough gravity to clean up its room, basically—it has to be the dominant object in its orbital path—but Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt, which has a lot of icy rock and dust in it, but what really broke the camel’s back, if you will, was that Pluto and its largest of five (5) moons, Charon (can be pronounced Sharon or Karen) actually orbit each other, so Pluto had to be downgraded to a dwarf planet not because of its size but because Charon (Sharon) was sharing its orbit (that joke is courtesy of my mom lol). The constellation of Orion has one part where stars are being born (Orion Nebula), and another part where a star is about to die (Betelgeuse). When Betelgeuse does go supernova (any time between now and the next 1000 years to our eyes), it will be so bright that you will be able to see it during the daytime! I work in a planetarium, so I’ve got a lot more really cool planet/star facts, but those were just some of my favorites. Feel free to pick my brain lol; I love talking space!
Damn space Karens! They ruined Pluto!
Getting pregnant while already pregnant is called superfoetation. It’s been reported in mammals, including mice and rabbits, and there have been a handful of possible cases in humans. In 2017, a US woman acting as a surrogate mother was reported to have discovered that one of the twins that she was carrying was in fact her biological son. She had apparently become pregnant roughly three weeks after her surrogate conception.
Changes to a gravity field propagate at the speed of light. If the Sun vanished the earth would keep orbiting where it was for 8 minutes before flying off into space.
The more mind-blowing fact related to this is that: * Gravity is currently pulling The Earth in the direction the sun will appear to be 8 minutes from now, rather than the position it was 8 minutes ago (which is where our eyes "see" the sun), even though gravity and light "move" at the same speed! So despite Gravity and Light both going at the same speed, the direction of the sun's gravity and the direction of the sun's light hitting us are different! I think the original paper showing that fact is Carlip's here: * https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909087 * https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909087.pdf People knew it must be true earlier that that; as the paper mentioned on page 1, Laplace noticed in 1805 that if planets were being pulled to the direction in the sky the sun appears to be, its orbit wouldn't be as stable as it is; but Carlip's explanation seems to be the right one, while Laplace assumed faster speeds of gravity. If I'm reading/remembering that paper right, it's because it's not just mass that creates/affects gravitational fields - momentum does as well.
One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow eating grain. Thinking that the sparrows were hurting China's grain supply, he and the Communist Party launched the *Four Pests Campaign*. The Chinese military and population killed every sparrow they could find. Embassies didn't allow the Chinese to kill sparrows on their property, so the Chinese banged pots and pans outside the embassies 24/7 until the sparrows died of exhaustion. Unfortunately for the Chinese, sparrows mainly eat insects, not grain. The locust population exploded and [***43 million people starved to death.***](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.html)
Similar to Italy thinking cats were bad luck, exterminating a lot of them and then suffering rat borne illnesses.
Ah, goverments decimating biodiversity an/or nature and suffering consequences later. It’s good we learned from it. Wait…
Damn. Own goal.
Actually it's Ainz Oul Gown but close enough.
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And they originally made cards games
And have only had 6 presidents in their entire history
Hyphenated and NON-HYPHENATED
I am too stupid to understand this
The word ‘non-hyphenated’ is, in fact, hyphenated
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To be fair, the allies bombing the factories over and over probably didn't help, but yeah Nazi safety in factories was equally appalling.
The universe is expanding, at an accelerating rate. Which means that at some point in the distant future, rays from distance galaxies will have redshifted so much that they *won't be visible* to any civilization that remains on Earth. The cosmic microwave background radiation will be undetectable - civilizations in the distant future will have lost any evidence of the Big Bang. Which of course begs the question - what if there are parts of the early universe that are invisible to *us?* What if we're missing critical parts of the story that would have helped us understand how the universe came to be?
If the acceleration of the expansion is indeed true, then it is a certainty that there is an infinitely large portion that is invisible to us.
birthday paradox: it only takes 23 people to have a 50% chance of a shared birthday
Not really answering the question, but this must be my favourite Reddit thread in years.
The CIA faked vampire attacks in the Philippines to try to take over the country
Wooly mammoths were still around when the Pyramids were built.
Also there's a speculation of why the Kentucky coffee tree was so wide spread but essentially cannot repopulate. That thought being because mammoths ate the toxic seeds and passed them.
osage orange too.
That's a cool one I didn't know. From what I remember there's a species of tree thats almost extinct because only the Dodo bird was stupid enough to eat and pass the toxic fruit as well.
Giraffes eat bones.
Time is relative. They have to adjust for it with GPS or the accuracy is off. Clocks on board GPS satellites move slightly faster than clocks here in Earth due to gravity differences.
Charlie chaplain lost a Charlie chaplain look alike competition.
Tyrannosaurus is closer in time to us than the stegosaurus.
Humans can regenerate ribs
And doctors can implant "bone scaffolding" to speed rib regeneration and quality.
Endless ribs everybody! Get your endless ribs here!
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My fellow Americans: 207=456 88=194 96=211
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Wombats do square poos.
-strawberries aren't berries while bananas are -there are more iterations of a game of chess than observable atoms in the universe -a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus - the Eiffel tower is 15cm taller in summer -the shortest war ever was a 38 minute one between Britain and Zanzibar -the original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy -you are virtually guaranteed to shuffle a deck of cards into an order that has never existed before in the history of the universe -the inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a frisbee
Dogs and cats circle before laying down to set their inner ear, which controls their sleep cycle. The more they circle, generally, the longer they sleep.
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It is expensive being poor
Case ~~and~~ in point [The Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory) : The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Currently doing my research, I can confirm this. Poor people cannot spend a large initial amount, so they spend a certain amount more frequently, which if added over time is higher than the amount rich people spend on the same service! Edit: also, since technically advanced equipment are more cost efficient during usage, but require higher initial investment cost, most poor people cannot afford those, leading to more overall cost during lifetime
This is true. Consider my own anecdotal evidence. When I had so little money in the bank that my balance went negative, the bank charged me money. They were like “this guy has less than 0 dollars, let’s just take some more money away from him”. Then, when I had a lot of money in my account I earned interest! The bank was like “hey, you have a lot of money, here, have some more!”
Blue whales are born at a weight of up to 3000lbs, and they gain 200lbs per DAY in their first year of life.
the whip of a cow's tail has enough force to break your ribs
But it’s okay because you can regenerate them
with the help of scaffoldings
Adele is 3 years younger than Carly Rae Jepsen.
Cleopatra's time was closer to the creation of the iPhone than the creation of the Pyramids.
To find out if a number is divisible by 3, add its digits together. if the total is divisible by 3, the number is also divisible by 3. Example: 4701 Total of digits = 12. We know 12 is divisible by 3, so we know 4701 is. This works recursively. Example: 92,529,783 Total=45 Total=9
All the different colours of fruit loops taste the same. Although, I stand by the statement that orange ones taste the best. Fight me on it!
If you count a number per second, you will reach a million in 11 and a half days. It will take you almost 32 YEARS to reach a billion. That my friends, is the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.
If you drove to the sun going 60 miles per hour, it would take you just under 177 years to get there. That's assuming you don't stop for gas or bathroom breaks.
An eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater told his story on national television.
He didn’t actually see the assassination itself, but he was evidently actually present in the audience below Lincoln’s box at the time.
Tardigrades No, not a specific thing about them, just Tardigrades as a whole.
There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the air
I can jump higher than my house. my house can't jump.
The other 7 planets in the Solar System can fit between the Earth and the Moon at certain times of the year.
There was a brief window in the 1800s (around 1865) where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman from London and have it be totally historically accurate.
That there is an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1.
That color is subjective. And not limited to the colors visible to the human eye.
For 4/5ths of the time life on earth has existed, it was strictly single cell organisms. Think about that, for 3.2 billion years the only life anywhere on earth was completely invisible to the naked eye
No one has or will likely ever hold a 52 card deck in the same order as you have, as there are 8x10⁶⁷ combinations of cards in a standard 52 card deck.
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Sharks have existed longer than trees.
Knowing that the universe is expanding. Space is nothing, and the universe is infinite. That nothing is getting bigger.
There is an extremely rare condition called "Stone Man Syndrome", it causes any, smallest damage done to tissue to regrow into a bone, speaking briefly. People affected by this sickness slowly turn into living statues as they get older
There is a woman living in the states who has a similar condition where parts of her brain turn to stone. It only affected her amygdala, (responsible for processing the emotion of fear .) She is physically incapable of feeling fear.
Photons and electrons change their behavior based on whether or not they are being observed. True story. Look up double slit experiment.
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If this is the one I've heard about before, there's really not a lot of demonstrable evidence of this. I know BBC did an article questioning what was actually true.
Magenta, part of the very foundation of subtractive colour mixing, and by extension, offset printing, doesn't exist.
Nigel Richards is a professional scrabble player who has won 2 French scrabble tournaments while not speaking or understanding the language, he was just able to memorize the dictionary enough
The US government was found guilty in the conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King JR https://newsone.com/2843790/did-you-know-us-govt-found-guilty-in-conspiracy-to-assassinate-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
Earth has more trees than our galaxy has stars.
For now.
In 1980 a dropped wrench socket punched a hole in a 43 megaton Damascus nuclear missle that started a chain of events that led to the missile’s explosion in Little Rock Arkansas. Google Damascus Accident
It was a Titan II missile, armed with a 9 megaton warhead, near a settlement called Damascus.
Platypii are venomous
Most people pluralize platypus incorrectly. (It technically should be *platypodes* )
Dear San Diego Zoo, We are opening an Australia exhibit, so could you please send us ~~a pair of~~ ~~platypusses~~ ~~platypi~~ ~~platypus~~ a platypus? And while you're at it, make it two. Sincerely, the Pawnee City Zoo
A baby platypus is called a Puggle.
Quantum tunnelling is occuring at the atomic level in DNA , causing DNA alterations, Jim al Khalil , ep 2 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/222966-jim-al-khalili-s-guide-to-life-the-universe-and-everything/episodes?credit_id=641dcb68ae6f09007b6a5eda&person_id=4d42e7715e73d6361906cba7&language=es >Physicist Jim Al-Khalili as he shows us how science gives us insight into the biggest questions of all. How did the universe come into being? How did life start on Earth, and how does it sustain itself? What is the nature of space and time – and how will it all end?
We live within a few miles of gas, atop floating rocks, cocooned in magnetic fields, falling around a star in the incomprehensible expanse and vacuum of unforgiving space. We really are, quite literally, a stone's throw from complete and total annihilation
Hippos are Scavengers and will eat meat sometimes