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Sleep deprivation makes it harder to lose weight.
Lack of sleep can interfere with ones hormone balance and decreases leptin. It also increases ghrelin which is the hormone that triggers hunger.

More people speak English as their second language than those who use it as their mother tongue.
English has a total of nearly 2 billion fluent speakers and it is also the most widely spoken language in the world. However, only 350 million people speak this language natively.

Depending on how they descend, waterfalls have different classifications.
This can be divided into 10 main categories. The most common one is the plunge and multi-step.

The folds in a chefs hat represents the number of ways you can cook an egg.
The toque is also known to determine the position of the chef in the kitchen and how experienced they are. Hows that for a hidden talent?

Losing weight alters brain activity.
Some records show that when women lose weight, their memory improves. Research has also linked obesity to poor memory, most especially those with pear-shaped body types.

Charles Darwins pet turtle outlived him.
The turtle named Harriet lived 124 years after Darwins death. It was 176 years old by the time it passed away.

One species of ants can only be found in Manhattan, New York.
Biologists discovered a new ant species between 63rd and 76th street in Broadway. This ant species was found to have a higher concentration of carbon in their bodies which was linked to a high corn-syrup diet.

Dolphins have names.
Research has found that dolphins use their unique vocal whistles to identify and differentiate one another. When a specific call was played back to the dolphins, they would respond differently each time.

A man was once saved by a sea lion.
During a suicide attempt, a man by the name of Kevin Hines survived jumping off the Golden Gate bridge. However, during his jump, he had broken his back thus causing him to drown. A nearby sea lion witnessed this and swam beneath the man to keep him afloat until coast guards arrived.

Milk wagons are the reason why we have roadway lines.
These lines were devised by a man who saw dots of milk spilling out from a moving milk wagon. These lines are considered to be the most important traffic safety device.

The KKK was taken down with help from Superman.
A 16 episode series titled The Adventures of Superman was aired on the radio during the 1940s. This series incorporated the findings that activist Stetson Kennedy had been able to get while undercover in the KKK.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Just to give a bit of an update I guess.

My wife is going to look into other provinces potentially... as each province has their own rules and whatnot about it. Kinda seems like the door is shut on it here until either her condition deteriorates or mental health factors get added to MAID next year.

I'm obviously very conflicted about it all. I love my wife dearly and I love the time we spend together so the prospect of having more time together does make me happy. That being said, I know she continues to suffer and feel like a weight on me (financially it is very difficult) and she doesn't have options for pain management or even for depression really.

My sympathies. I would say try not to be bothered by the conflicted feelings. Allow yourself to be both happy and sad

The worlds most successful pirate was a woman.
She was a 19th-century Chinese pirate known as Ching Shih. She was the widow of Cheng I and easily succeeded her husbands crew of over 1,800 ships and 80,000 men.

Fake ambulances are hired in Russia by the wealthy.
They use this as a taxi for a faster and more convenient way of getting to their destinations. These vehicles can be hired for approximately $200 an hour.

Incan people used knots to keep track of records.
These knots were also tied to pendants and cords. The knots are better known as quipu and its meanings would depend on its position on the cord. Over 600 examples of quipu have been discovered already.

Monty Python has one of the most requested songs for funerals in England.
"Always look on the bright side of life" is a common favorite during funeral services. This song was originally from the comedy classic Life of Brian.

Bottled water has an expiration date.
To be more precise, the expiration date is for the bottle itself, and not the water. This is because, over time, the plastic will start leaking into the water.

CobraGT posted...

There is a theory that human ancestry has a pig-primate hybrid.

https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html

I scoffed at this and then I read the papers...creepy but solid

The story of Beauty and the Beast was aimed to make women open to arranged marriages.
The original 1740 tale stated that the beast was an elephant-fish hybrid. The story mainly revolves around the idea of accepting arranged marriages for the sake of an alliance that was greater than them as a person.

Tap water in Manhattan is not Kosher.
Very small crustaceans have been found in the tap water within New York City. Automatically, this cannot be considered kosher water.

An encrypted monument stands outside of the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
This monument was created by artist Jim Sanborn and features four inscriptions. Three of four of the inscriptions have been cracked already. However, no one seems to be able to crack the final code to this day.

SEARS once sold houses.
SEARS once offered kit houses that you would have to assemble yourself. The original instruction manual was 75 pages long. This was much before every city and state in the U.S had Walmart.

Kummerspeck is German for the weight gained during emotional eating.
This vaguely translates to grief bacon. In some languages, this German term is said to add insult to injury.

The largest living organism is an aspen grove.
This grove is referred to as Pando and can be found in the state of Utah. The grove is made up of 47,000 identical quaking aspen trees that cover over 106 acres.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Not all of us care to research every little thing. Plus everything on the internet isn't true so it's not like just go with the first Google result and that's good enough. Some of us like discussion. And for the most part we aren't going to do much past what we actively enjoy doing with our free time.

I wasn't arguing though ( -_-) I can't find things funny?

MI4_REAL posted...

(From memory, no time right now, correct me if I am wrong)

Foppe posted...

I want to remember that it was in a fire station.

Not judging, but you're both holding the entire internet in your hands and deciding to go from memory...lol, I like it though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

Flipping a shark will render it temporarily immobile.
Certain types of sharks enter a state of tonic immobility due to the shock when flipped over. Some killer whales have been recorded to exploit this weakness and purposely flip them over.

itachi15243 posted...

Most of the rest of the world counts on their fingers with their thumb first.

Iirc Only China and the US start with the index finger.

This reminded me of my favorite scene in Inglorious Bastards

Glad you're losing weight but the vast majority of the food you post on here looks extremely unhealthy

Melting glaciers make fizzy noises.
This is also known as bergy seltzer because of how similar it sounds to fizzing soda. The sound is mainly due to the melting waters that free tiny bubbles trapped in ice.

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was in Salt Lake City, Utah

Forest_Temple posted...

Whoever named those places should get punched in the face

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. This 35-letter, 15-syllable word contains the root sesquipedalian, which means "long word." Therefore, it is sometimes called sesquipedalophobia.

Whoever decided on that word must have been in hysterics at the thought of some poor soul trying to tell people what their greatest fears were in years to come.

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
The reason why this word is so long is that titin is formed by 244 individual protein domains, which are connected into one sequence. Now, imagine 244 names of chemical compounds squashed together into one word.
Well show you a glimpse:
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine.

Beer was highly valued and thought to be a gift from the gods. Around 1800 BCE ancient Sumerians wrote the first ever brewing recipe in the form of a hymn to the goddess Ninkasi. Beer is also mentioned in the oldest written story, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Egyptians recognized their goddess of beer, Tenenit, throughout their mythology. In the 3rd century BCE, Egyptian workers were paid in a low alcohol-content beer to build ancient pyramids and temples.

Its in our DNA to drink beer:

Matthew Carrigan and Steven Benner, biologists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida, did a comparative analysis of the primate gene alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH4), which converts ethanol into fuel for our bodies. They found that our hominid ancestors evolved a digestive enzyme for alcohol, ADH4. This enzyme that metabolizes ethanol appeared around the time our primate ancestors transitioned from living in trees to inhabiting the forest floor, about 10 million years ago.In these more distant ancestors the enzyme didnt efficiently metabolize ethanol. Our more productive version today most likely became efficient due to our increased exposure to alcohol from our diet. Our early ancestors would have collected fruit from the forest floor. That easily accessible fruit could have been squished or the skin could have been broken, exposing its sugars to yeast and allowing for fermentation. Although the naturally occurring alcohol content would have been low, eating enough of the fruit would have had mind-altering effects on the consumer.

Male students attending Brigham Young University cannot grow beards.
This Mormon flagship university has several strict guidelines that include banning premarital sex, alcohol, and tattoos. Unless you have a medical condition or a specific religion, men from this university are not allowed to grow a beard.

North Korean teachers were required to play the accordion.
This musical instrument is also known as the peoples instrument due to its convenient size suitable for taking to marches. Students from all schools in the country are required to learn them. This explains why teachers need to pass an accordion exam before they get their teaching licenses during the 1990s.

OMG was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
A retired British admiral of the Royal Navy one day became excited due to headlines regarding the mobilizing forces of Britain. Excited to share this news with a college, the admiral quickly wrote a small acronym for Oh My God! in his letter. Little did he know that he had just invented one of the most popular acronyms of todays society.

McDonalds once had bubblegum flavored broccoli.
This was done as an attempt to make kids enjoy eating vegetables. However, this strange method failed for obvious reasons.

The gissar or hissar are a very popular sheep breed in Uzbekistan. They are prized for their enormous rumps, by far the biggest of any sheep, and gissar which exhibit the largest rumps sell for the highest prices.
Warning! Image NSFW: https://i.redd.it/o4k3te701k1a1.jpg

The largest recorded snowflake is 15 inches wide.
This was dated January 28, 1887, in Montana, U.S.A. It was stated that army personnel witnessed the falling snowflake as frisbee-sized.

The CIA faked Vampire Attacks in the Philippines to scare leftist guerrilla forces:

The CIA chose to exploit the Huks belief in the aswang, a vampire-like monster, Filipino folklore said to drain the blood of humans. Back in the 50s, residents of rural Philippines still very much believed in and feared the aswang, so Lansdale took advantage of this.
A unit of Hukbalahap rebels had taken up a prime position on a hill in Luzon. This was the perfect opportunity for Landsdale to deploy his psywar tactics.
When the unit went on patrol at night, Lansdale ordered his people to silently grab the last man in the group, puncture his neck in two places, hang him upside down to drain his blood, then throw his body back out on the trail, a covert and gruesome action.
The rebels, of course, returned later to look for their missing comrade, only to find an exsanguinated corpse that looked like the victim of an aswang attack.
While this might seem like an odd tactic, believe it or not, it worked! The very next day, the frightened rebels fled their hilltop position, losing one of their greatest advantages.Although it only took one fake vampire attack to scare the Huks away from that location, it wasnt the end of things.
Lansdale deployed more psywar techniques, such as painting menacing all-seeing eyes on homes in villages where he suspected Hukbalahap rebels were hiding in the night and broadcasting messages from low-flying planes to make the rebels believe spies were in their midst.
In May 1954, the Hukbalahap surrendered and the rebellion was over, and Edward Lansdale is largely credited with putting an end to it.
While his fake vampire attack wasnt the only event to end the rebellion, it stands out as one of the strangest tactics used against Cold War combatants.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Dua Lipa - Physical is objectively a metalcore song

Wha?

Only owning one guinea pig is illegal in Switzerland. Guinea pigs are herd animals and therefore become severely depressed when alone. Switzerland considered only owning one illegal to practice social rights for animals.

The ?! punctuation mark has a term.
It is called an interrobang and was invented during the 1960s. This combination of punctuation made it easy for advertisements to express emotional questions. The interrobang originally looked like both marks were overlapped ().

Leeches were used to predict the weather. This was a common practice during the Victorian era. However, further research proved that this type of prediction method was not reliable.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts when she was born.

Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotlands three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few among these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).

Pineapples are named after pinecones.