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Sign language has tongue twisters. They are called finger fumblers. Many who have practiced sign language over the years still fumble over certain sequences in ASL.

Putting sugar on a cut will make it heal faster.
Pour some sugar on top of the wound and wrap it with a bandage. The granules of the sugar crystals will absorb any moisture that bacteria thrive on.

Soccer balls were initially used for basketball, and they worked fine with the original rules as there was no dribbling. It was more of a rugby like game, running with the ball and mayhem on the court. To reduce bloodshed, running was eliminated, passing and dribbling were then the only ways to move the ball. Naismith, the creator of basketball, worked with Spalding to create a ball that worked with the evolving rules, something about the same size as a soccer ball, that bounced better on a hardwood gym floor.

The dot over a lowercase i and j is called a 'tittle' or superscript dot. The word 'tittle' is known to be a combination of words 'tiny' and 'little', and refers to a small stroke or dot in writing or printing. Derived from Latin word 'titulus', it aims to distinguish letters with vertical strokes such as u, m, and n.

The colossal squid has the largest animal eyes ever studied. It possibly has the largest eyes that have ever existed during the history of the animal kingdom. In a living colossal squid they measure about 27 cm across about the size of a soccer ball.

Wombats Poop Cubes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-solved-mystery-how-wombats-poop-cubes-180976898/

To build on those results and fully understand how the wombats soft intestinal walls created sharp cube-like edges in the poop, Yang and her team dissected two wombats and examined the texture and structure of the intestinal tissue, reports Tess Joosse for Science. A 2-D mathematical model created from the wombats intestinal tract showed how the organ expanded and contracted during digestionand eventually squeezed out the excrement, reports Science.
A cross-section of the wombats intestine is like a rubber band with two ends kept slightly taut and the center section drooping. The rigid and elastic parts contract at different speeds, which creates the cube shape and corners, Patricia Yang tells Elena Debre for Slate.

A dime has 118 ridges on its edge.
The ridges on the edge of U.S. coins were added to silver coins, such as dimes and quarters, for security purposes. They made coins harder to reproduce by counterfeiting, and prevented clipping (removing small amounts of silver from coins to sell for profit).

The flashes of light when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

Phosphenes are flashes of colorful light that are produced from inside the eye rather than from an outside light source. Some people report that phosphenes look like rapidly moving stars, or shapes of color that wander slowly across your vision.

Undergoing phosphenes is called photopsia. It may occur very quickly and resolve after a few moments, or could be a recurring feature in your vision. One or both eyes may be affected.

A common practice that usually triggers phosphenes is eye rubbing. This action stimulates photoreceptors inside the retina and causes the light and colors to appear. Many times, the phosphenes will continue to visibly float across the visual field a few moments after pressure on the eyes is released. While the response is a pretty cool phenomenon, rubbing your eyes can cause harm to the skin and muscles around the eye, as well as the eye itself.

Red blood cells circulate your body at an amazing speed.
Within 20 seconds, one RBC would have already completed one lap around your circulatory system. These blood cells help deliver oxygen to all the organs and cells in the body. Red blood cells last about 4 months before your body makes new ones.

Kangaroos never stop growing.
From birth, they will continue to grow until they pass away. They are also the largest marsupials on the planet.

The insect population of the world is 1 billion times larger than the human population.
There are over 8 billion people on the planet, and it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive Recent figures indicate that there are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet

Staying in a negative relationship can lower your immune system. Studies indicate that negative emotions lead to lowered immune responses against diseases. Other studies support this by stating that stress and negative emotions can adversely affect the immune system.

The brain makes up only 2 percent of our body weight, but it consumes 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe and 20 percent of the energy we consume. This enormous consumption of oxygen and energy fuels many thousands of chemical reactions in the brain every second.

Did you know that according to the American Temperament Test Society, Pit Bulls pass their temperament test 87 percent of the time? This means that they rank 4th of 122 breeds tested and are considered one of the most affectionate and least aggressive breeds of dog.

The Titanic included dogs as their passengers. There were twelve confirmed dogs as passengers on the Titanic, only three of which survived.

The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird ever to exist, and, according to many, it's also the "smallest dinaosaur" to ever exist. This characterization is based upon the recognition that birds are, in fact, a living form of dinosaurs (or, strictly speaking, theropods), and no smaller bird or non-avian dinosaur has been found in the fossil record.

A British scientist studying chocolate has her taste buds insured.
Her taste buds are insured for one million British Pounds. This entails that she would need to avoid very hot foods in order to keep her taste buds from damage.

Multiplying 1089 by 9 will give you the same numbers in reverse.

The queens in ant colonies live for around 30 years.
This was observed by keeping queen ants in captivity. On average they lived for almost 29 years. However, it is estimated that they are able to live much longer in the wild with a full colony.

The Earth holds about 11 quintillion pounds of air.
The force that gravity holds it in place is equivalent to a pressure of 15 psi. There are a total of 5 regions in our atmosphere.

There are over 6,000 species of grass. The most common examples are rice, wheat, oats, and sugarcane.

A shape with 26 sides is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
Playing dice are the only common objects that have this shape. These dice are also ideal for labeling with the English alphabet.

Unlike centipedes, millipedes do not bite or sting. Although they do not bite, some millipedes defend themselves another way. They produce an unpleasant-smelling liquid from glands on their sides. Scientists think this liquid is toxic to insects, spiders and small animals. The liquid can cause small blisters on the skin of people who try to handle certain millipedes.The toxin that millipedes release keeps away most predators. Some large millipede species can spray these toxins as far as 32 inches (80 cm). Contact with these secretions may cause allergic reactions in some people.

Machete posted...

speaking of random interesting facts, you and I, TC are gamefaqs friends, but I actually don't know how we know each other. Like don't just up and unfriend me or anything >_> just saying, I don't recognize your name

I recently requested a name change on my account. I used to be "indica" but felt I grew out of that name a long time ago.

Here's a fun fact: Ketchup used to not have tomatoes at all and was actually a fish sauce. The word originally comes from the Malay word kecap which then becomes the Chinese (Hokkien) word k-chiap: "brine of pickled fish or shellfish"

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No, that's the current Speaker of the House ( -_-)

name_unknown posted...

What's the porn law in Utah?

Idk, but we had a porn czar for like a year before they were fired for corruption

Is there a sufferable drunk driver?

Intro2Logic posted...

Universal healthcare

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Bidets.

Both of these

Ryven posted...

I kind of love the peace of being awake and energized while the majority of the people in my area/timezone are still asleep.

This is what I enjoy about being a night person

pauIie posted...

i do? i mean....i still sleep, lol. i get them when i sleep.

Oh, I guess I just assumed you didn't because then I'd also assume they wouldn't be considered a waste of your free time

pauIie posted...

yeah i guess. 7 hours sleep is my sweet spot for now which has my awake schedule usually being 7am-12am. including weekends. i'm up at early on weekends and i don't like sleeping my free time away.

I'm sorry you don't have vivid awesome dreams ( -_-)

CassandraCroft posted...

I see a poor little vegan cant accept the truth that a Vegan/Vegetarian diet is bad.

Lets point some things out if we all went Vegan/Vegetarian.

* Look at all the extra farmland that would be needed if everybody ditched meat and went Vegetarian/Vegan.
* Look at how much more water would be need to irragate those new fields. Much more than the meat industry could ever use.
* Look at how much more pesticides and fertilizers would be needed to keep these crops free from pests. Pesticides and fertilizers that would pollute the air and get into the water table.
* Look at how much more pollutants are being pumped into the atmosphere by all the extra tractors and Combine Harvesters that would be needed on those new fields.
* Look at all the extra Diesel pollutants being pumped into the atmosphere by the extra trucks needed to deliver all those fruit and veg to the factories or shops.
* Have you ever seen a process salad being made? Look at how much water is being used by those factories to clean and chop those friuts and veg and it will be even more if everyone was vegetarian or Vegan.
* Look at how much plastic is used in the friut and vegetable industry to package those processed salads. I have even seen indivudual friuits wrapped in plastic. Think about how much more would be used if we were all Vegetarian/Vegan.
You Vegans do not think about any of that when you go on your high and mighty rants against people that eat meat.

Oh and Antropologists reckon that it was our eating of meat that gave us our big brains and high intelligence.

Also look at the lists of the most highly intelligent species on Earth and you will notice something and that is that they are either Carnivores or Omnivores.

So we would be destroying the planet worse if we all went Vegan/Vegetarian.

First off, ad hominem attacks prove that you don't actually have a good argument about the issue, especially if you feel the need to personally attack me before you even start. Very pathetic on your part. Second, I'm not even a vegan, I just don't like your fearmongering propaganda. And with that, your points are so lame that I'll just state the obvious about the first one: cows use up way, way more farmland than vegetables.

And here's an actual credible source to explain that to you: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

CassandraCroft posted...

Look at that gorgeous steak dripping in butter. Add some mustard and you have the perfect meal.

To everyone calling me a liar in needing supplements I have been onto Google and Yahoo and look what I found:

https://www.vegetology.com/blog/do-vegans-and-vegetarians-really-need-nutritional-supplements

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=do+vegetarians+require+supplement

You've proven yourself to be an insincere fearmonger and a supporter of an environmentally unsustainable food source: beef. And your cited sources are wildly inaccurate. You can do a quick Google search and find several more credible sources that counter those. The closest actual problem would be with B12, which would only be a problem if you're a vegan, and TC says he's going vegetarian which still allows for eggs and dairy. Even if you're full vegan, seaweed and other plants can provide B12 so...yeah, enjoy destroying yourself and the planet because you love beef more than people or the environment ( >_>) Again, be better

leafsRULE posted...

The morning is objectively better than the night,

Why would you say objectively? That's a pretty strong statement

You're missing out on hate speech and anime porn

The only time I see a sunrise is when I'm still up. Fuck mornings

CassandraCroft posted...

No you will need supplements.

This is completely false. As someone who takes facts seriously, you should be better.

interesting

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

Go look at the lyrics for 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'. Now that is straight creepy.

For sure. Also, I doubt most people know Roxanne is about a sex worker. The Police were definitely in some weird head spaces.

Ivynn posted...

Isn't I'll Be Watching You supposed to be creepy since it's about a stalker? And isn't it funny how a lot of people treat it like a romantic song? lol

Yeah, that's the creepy part.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Why are people talking about the police in this topic about The Police

Because it's a triggering word in our current political climate

I don't necessarily hate all police, but they've never done anything positive for me in my entire life, quite the opposite

Unless, you're talking about the band, which were good, but released some super creepy songs, like I'll Be Watching You ( O_o)

This is becoming a common theme and highlights just how fucked up taking away women's bodily autonomy affects people across the political spectrum

I wonder if the people who complained about Ellie will also complain that she's too feminine to play Abby.

Umbreon posted...

And if the vest failed and someone died, would you still feel that way?

Yes, because they both agreed to it.

I'm not a gun person, but I feel this shouldn't be an arrestable event