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The space between human eyes is equal to one eye length.
https://www.artbrit.com/uploads/2/1/2/1/21211482/proportions_of_the_face_study_guide__1_.pdf

Sources appreciated!

all wood is brown

Naysaspace posted...

all wood is brown

Not true!

Green wood is wood that has been recently cut and therefore has not had an opportunity to season (dry) by evaporation of the internal moisture. Green wood contains more moisture than seasoned wood, which has been dried through passage of time or by forced drying in kilns.

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

Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards, and they weigh less than a nickel

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
https://www.livescience.com/32128-does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-water.html

The potato itself is the only part of the potato plant that isn't absurdly poisonous.

indica posted...

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
https://www.livescience.com/32128-does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-water.html

Pathological science occurs when well-intentioned scientists spend extended time and resources studying a phenomena that isnt real - such as the so called "MPEMBA EFFECT" - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2010/2010.07287.pdf

Coins don't have a smell, it's a chemical reaction with your skin oils. If you get change and it has a strong smell, it's seen some shit.

Mickey Dolenz is the last living Monkee.

Anemones will not sting clownfish, and a clownfish can live within one. The fish brings it food, while the anemone protects the fish within itself. Most other fish would be poisoned and likely die if they attempted.

This is an example of many symbiotic relationships in the ocean.

Lithium is the only element that gives off excess energy by both fusion and fission.

Due to a precipitous rise in the water table beneath the site, Old Babylon is lost to us. Only remains of Neo-Babylon (the Second Babylonian Empire that appears in the Bible and was crushed by Cyrus the Great) survive.
More time passed from the dawn of Sumerian-Akkadian civilization and the fall of Babylon to the Persians than between the fall of Babylon and today.

Armageddon isn't an event. It's a place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo

Even though a single human outweighs a single ant by many thousands of times, all of the ants in the world outweigh all the humans.

There was only 66 years between the The Wright brothers' first plane [1903] and landing on the moon [1969].

An American CFL team has won the Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian NHL team has won the Stanley Cup.

I'm 5'8" and my dick is small.

Bad_Mojo posted...

There was only 66 years between the The Wright brothers' first plane [1903] and landing on the moon [1969].

Without the World Wars, i doubt we would have made a moon landing even today.

The largest mortality rate from a hail storm was in 1888, near India, hail the size of "oranges and cricket balls" were responsible for killing 246 people that day.

A day is longer than a year on Venus

Technically LEGO is the world's biggest tire producer

David Arquette is a certified Bob Ross painting instructor.

Crayon_Lover posted...

A day is longer than a year on Venus

Uranus is rotating sideways (98-degree axial tilt), so its "day" is irrelevant anyway.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/7/9/AAEhCpAAC35_.jpg

Venus and Uranus are rotating "backwards", compared to the rest of the planets.

Blue whales can eat half a million calories in one mouthful.

Steffenfield posted...

Blue whales can eat half a million calories in one mouthful.

IMO, "Can" doesn't equal facts

Bad_Mojo posted...

IMO, "Can" doesn't equal facts

can is totally facts
"it is a fact that they can" is not "it is a fact that they do"

Guide posted...

can is totally facts
"it is a fact that they can" is not "it is a fact that they do"

No, I get that. What I mean is that it doesn't really fit this topic, imo. Not that you're wrong or anything.

There's a statue of a blue monkey with gold balls in Prague (it's called King Kong Balls)

Ontario has made it illegal to even look at the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck. You have to point sonar at it from the American side of the border.

Bad_Mojo posted...

IMO, "Can" doesn't equal facts

The estimated 457,000 calories are more than 240 times the energy the whale uses to scoop those krill into its mouth.

Better?

The Renault 16's wheelbase is asymmetric; the right wheelbase is 80 cm shorter than the left.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/9/AAAURGAAC36T.jpg

Bad_Mojo posted...

No, I get that. What I mean is that it doesn't really fit this topic, imo. Not that you're wrong or anything.

ohhh
no yeah i see that

Steffenfield posted...

The estimated 457,000 calories are more than 240 times the energy the whale uses to scoop those krill into its mouth.

Better?

lol, it wasn't wrong before. Just, how can I say it. . .If I were watching a video on YouTube about interesting facts, and that one came up, I would be like, "Yeah, of course they do, lol," lol

Thompson posted...

The Renault 16's wheelbase is asymmetric; the right wheelbase is 80 cm shorter than the left.

is that even possible, geometrically?

Michael_Booth posted...

Pathological science occurs when well-intentioned scientists spend extended time and resources studying a phenomena that isnt real - such as the so called "MPEMBA EFFECT" - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2010/2010.07287.pdf

Good one! Here's this though:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-true-that-hot-water/

we came from balls

If you do a barrel roll mid-air while humming and whistling in a triple octave, there's a 1-out-of-5 chance you'll open a temporal anomaly and fly for 20-140 seconds.

Oganesson is the only element (#118) named after someone who is still alive (Yuri Oganessian).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson

It's also the last element known to exist.

I farted.

Trumble posted...

I farted.

Your body farted.

You may or may not have had a say in it.

Xethuminra posted...

Your body farted.

You may or may not have had a say in it.

Methane (farts) is the second most potent greenhouse gas known.

Water is the greenhouse champion.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html

Abraham Lincoln's son Robert was nearby or present for three presidential assassinations. He was at the White House in 1865 when his father was shot just down the street in Ford's Theatre, he was an eyewitness to Garfield's assassination in 1881, and he was at the same exposition where McKinley was shot in 1901.

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Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor:

"Fin whales are basically the Barry White of the ocean. The deep, bellowing songs that males use to attract mates are considered to be the loudest of all marine life and can be "heard up to 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away," according to Scientific American. They can also be used to sonically map out the ocean floor thanks to the fact that the sound can reach depths of 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) under the water, which bounces back and provides researchers with accurate measurements. Beyond that, a 2021 study in Science showed how using a fin whale's song can be far more useful and have less of a negative impact on sea life than using a large air gun, which is the typical tool researchers rely on."

The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.

Bad_Mojo posted...

The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.

Wasn't that vile fiend going like 4 times the speed limit?

Any microbes that they find on Mars most likely came from the vehicles we sent there.

Dentistry is the oldest profession in the world:

Dentistry goes all way back to when humans first had teethwell not quite that long. However, one study found evidence of teeth being drilled in skulls that dates from 7,500 to 9,000 years ago. The holes were likely made using a prehistoric bow-drill. Could that be the work of the first dentist? Other biting research conducted by the University of Bologna, Italy on a 14,000-year-old skull found that "one rotten tooth in the jaw had been deliberately scoured and scraped with a tool," according to the BBC. That makes dentistry one of the oldest recorded professions and is definitely a reason to smile.

Questionmarktarius posted...

is that even possible, geometrically?

Why would it not be?

The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you:

The "weapons-grade" Dragon's Breath chili pepper is so hot it's downright deadly. If you ate one, it could potentially cause a type of anaphylactic shock, burning your airways and closing them up.
"I've tried it on the tip of my tongue and it just burned and burned," said Mike Smith, the hobby grower who invented the Dragon's Breath along with scientists from Nottingham University. So why make such an impractical pepper? As it turns out, the chili was initially developed to be used in medical treatment as an anesthetic that can numb the skin.