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The release of Pokemon GO increased game-related accidents by 26.5%.
During the first 5 months of its release, damages over $25.5 million had occurred. 2 deaths were also reported to have taken place while the individuals were playing Pokemon GO.

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At exactly midnight on January 1st 1900, a ship captain was in the neighborhood of the intersection of the equator and the international date line, and jumped at the chance to make maritime history. He navigated his ship into position and was in different; hemispheres days, years, and centuries, all at the same time.

Mexican prisons do not punish you for non-violent attempts to escape.
This is because it is part of human nature to want freedom, and therefore is not seen as a crime. However, factors such as property damage and violence will cause prison guards to practice the necessary punishments.

indica posted...

Mexican prisons do not punish you for non-violent attempts to escape.
This is because it is part of human nature to want freedom, and therefore is not seen as a crime. However, factors such as property damage and violence will cause prison guards to practice the necessary punishments.

Pretty much the same in Sweden.

When you fly from KC to Denver, you get there about the same time you left.

Starfishes do not have blood.
Starfishes get their nutrients by using the seawater found in their vascular systems. If you were to cut one of its legs, blood will not spill out. Instead, they simply regrow their lost limbs as if nothing happened.

indica posted...

The release of Pokemon GO increased game-related accidents by 26.5%.
During the first 5 months of its release, damages over $25.5 million had occurred. 2 deaths were also reported to have taken place while the individuals were playing Pokemon GO.

I remember driving halfway into the breakdown lane and going slow enough to capture a pokemon without getting off the freeway.

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This was even more "significant" than the famous beastquake caused by Seattle Seahawks fans in 2011.
Which raises another question. Why is Seattle the only city that measures it's news with seismographs?

indica posted...

Starfishes do not have blood.
Starfishes get their nutrients by using the seawater found in their vascular systems. If you were to cut one of its legs, blood will not spill out. Instead, they simply regrow their lost limbs as if nothing happened.

Disgusting. They don't deserve to live

The first poop a human does (usually as a baby) is nearly entirely sterile. And what bacteria is there is nearly all from the mother's birth canal.

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This is a real score, from a real baseball game, played by 12 year olds... But still.

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Imit8m3 posted...

This is a real score, from a real baseball game, played by 12 year olds... But still.

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This has the same energy as LeBron's block lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_-0yPZgdY

look up some of the mens USA basketball scores. They usually dominate and put up massive points against their opponents

How bicycles work is a mystery.

Cuz Murica number one!!!

ragnarokius posted...

How bicycles work is a mystery.

Gyroscopic stability and precession are not mysteries.

Derrick J. Wyatt, the art director for Ben 10: Omniverse, has a little alien based on him named Y-it. Wyatt also said that the Omnitrix can accept Yautja (Predators from the movies) DNA lol

1971, February. The Main Ring particle accelerator at the NAL's Meson Laboratory was fresh out of the wrapper, and physicists were keen to start running it through its paces.
This $250 million piece of equipment consisted of a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) tube along which, they hoped, 1,014 powerful magnets would help steer and accelerate protons to energies up to 200 billion electron volts. The scientific prospects were incredibly exciting.
By late April, things were not looking quite so rosy. Six days after the final magnet was installed, two of the things were found shorted to the ground. This was no trivial matter. Most of the magnets were each around 20 feet long, with a weight of 12.5 tons. It took some time to replace the two magnets But then it happened again. And again. In total, the facility had to replace around 350 magnets.
Eventually, the team traced the problem to one of contamination. Tiny scrap metal shavings had been left in the accelerator. The accelerator tube had the diameter of a tennis ball. This posed a dilly of a pickle: How to get the shaving out? Physicist Ryuji Yamada proposed pulling a magnet through the tubes. Not a bad idea, but who would do the pulling?
British physicist Robert Sheldon hit upon a solution.
"In his part of Yorkshire, hunters used ferrets. Ferrets are weasel-like mammals who enjoy going down tunnels and flushing out rabbits. A ferret would not hesitate to run down the inside of the stainless steel tube, even if that involved a long journey into the unknown."
Furthermore, it would be a sort of green solution to a technical problem, and everybody liked the idea of that.
The Designer of the Main Ring, Wally Pelczarski, who had been tasked with designing a mechanical ferret to clean the tube, contacted the Wild Game and Fur Farm in Gaylord, Minnesota, and asked them for the smallest ferret they had. In exchange for just $35, they sent Felicia. At just 15 inches long, Felicia was a particularly small ferret, just right for the tiny tunnel that needed cleaning.
Felicia was fitted with a diaper to prevent defecation-related particle accelerator mishaps and a leather harness. Then, the researchers trained her to travel through dark tunnels while wearing the harness, which had a strong string attached to it.
She would scamper from one end of the 300-foot sections of the tunnel to the other, receiving a reward of chicken, liver, fish heads, or hamburger meat once she completed a section. An engineer at the end would tie a cleaning-fluid-soaked swab to the string, to be drawn back through the tunnel by humans at the other end to collect detritus.
Apparently, it worked pretty well, and the scientists could clear out the tunnels with a little fuzzy help. Over time, however, their needs exceeded Felicia's capabilities, and engineer Hans Kautzky developed a new solution. He attached Mylar disks to a flexible cable that was pushed through the pipes using compressed air, and Felicia retired after a dozen or so runs.
It also turned out that there were multiple reasons for the magnets' failing, and metal shavings were not the prime culprit.
"The main reason was poor quality control in making joints for the water-cooled copper conductors. The mating surfaces of a butt weld joint were sometimes not completely parallel, and the resulting joint might have a small, wedge-shaped gap. Later, improved welding with an inserted pipe was used."
Felicia remained beloved by the NAL scientists but, alas, would not live long to enjoy her retirement. She passed away in May 1972 from a ruptured abscess on her intestinal tract.

TL;DR Scientists put a diaper on a ferret and let it run in a particle accelerator.

I read that longass wall of text because it was about a diaper-wearing ferret in a particle accelerator and am not sorry

YugiNoob posted...

Chain Chomps were inspired by a childhood experience of Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, when a dog tried to attack him. The dog lunged, but was yanked back by its leash inches away from Miyamoto's face.

Ah. So thats why they bark.

Oh, another interesting fact: Chain Chomps were originally created for the Zelda series, but ended up being put in Mario games. Imagine Link fighting a Chain Chomp lol

YugiNoob posted...

Oh, another interesting fact: Chain Chomps were originally created for the Zelda series, but ended up being put in Mario games. Imagine Link fighting a Chain Chomp lol

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Oh no, they already invaded Hyrule D:

Imit8m3 posted...

Gyroscopic stability and precession are not mysteries.

You should inform the baffled scientists.

indica posted...

Ben & Jerrys made a graveyard for their former flavors.
These flavors all consist of discontinued ice cream flavors. Each flavor has its photo and as well as its life span. Each one even has its epitaph for people to remember it by.

https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard

RIP, Marzipan.

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Some "I cant believe that is true!" facts...

Frozen came out the same year Mississippi officially abolished slavery.

When Harvard opened, they didnt have calculus classes because calculus hadnt been invented yet.

Oxford University celebrated its 200th graduating class by the time the Aztec Empire started in Central America.

The last execution by guillotine occured on September 10th 1977. The Atari 2600 was released the very next day.

People walked on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase.

Betty White and the Ottoman Empire existed at the same time.

The last mammoths lived at the time the pyramids were under construction.

Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was roaming the streets of London.

Women in Switzerland got right to vote in 1971. India already had a woman prime minister then.

The Qing Dynasty of China collapsed in 1912, the same year as the Titanic disaster.

The Titanic maiden voyage happened the same year MDMA was created.

William Shakespear and Pocahontas were alive at the same time.

Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyds Dark Side Of the Moon was released.

The last surviving witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on the TV game show Ive Got A Secret several weeks before his death in 1954.

Samurai, the fax machine and Abraham Lincoln all existed at the same time.

Victorian England and the Wild West happened at the same time.

Orville Wright of the Wright brothers lived long enough to see Chuck Yaeger break the sound barrier and travel on an airliner that had a wingspan equal to the distance he covered in his first flight (37m).

A Civil War veterans widow died in 2020:

Jackson, the last known living widow of a Civil War veteran, died in 2020.
To be fair, she was 101 years oldand shed married her late husband when he was already in his nineties. When Jackson was a teenager in 1930s Missouri, her father asked her to do some housework for James Bolin on her way home from school every day. Bolin was an elderly widower who served on the Union side as a private in the Missouri Cavalrys 14th Regiment.
Though he accepted the help, he didnt like being a charity case. So he eventually presented Jackson with what was basically a business proposition: Marry me, and youll get my military pension when I die. Jackson later told historian Hamilton C. Clark that It was during the depression and times were hard. He said that it might be my only way of leaving the farm.

Your inner cheek tissue is the same type of tissue that is inside of a vagina.

So ladies, what to kind of know what we feel? Use your tongue to feel the inside of your mouth.

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There are only 4 escalators in all of Wyoming. Some would argue there's only 2, but there's one going up, and one going down in each pair, so IMO they're counted individually.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15th, 1865, just months before the Secret Service was founded. The legislation to create the Secret Service was on Lincolns desk on the night he died, perhaps if they were created a few months earlier they might have foiled the plot to assassinate him.

Pizza Hut uses about 300 million pounds of cheese annually

YugiNoob posted...

Pizza Hut uses about 300 million pounds of cheese annually

"Cheese"

The U.S. government issued Santa Claus a pilots license and the FAA tracks Santa's location

If you lie down naked and still outside in 0C weather you'd die in around 20 minutes.

FurryPhilosifer posted...

If you lie down naked and still outside in 0C weather you'd die in around 20 minutes.

OC?

Zero degree Celcius?

Foppe posted...

Zero degree Celcius?

You're right, that is a 0 not an O.

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A gallon of horseshoe crab blood is worth roughly $60,000 USD

Their blood can be manufactured into limulus amebocyte lysate, that is used to detect pathogens in indispensable medicine.

It is illegal in most places to take even a part of a deceased horseshoe crab shell from a beach.

When you get a kidney transplant, they usually don't take out either of the bad kidneys, they just splice the new one in the system. So you would have three kidneys but only one that functions.

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So are the breasts still considered to be white meat, or what?

Now out of date fun fact: the Twitter bird is named Larry, after, of course, NBA legend Larry Bird. Co-founder Biz Stone is a Boston Celtics fan :3

YugiNoob posted...

Now out of date fun fact: the Twitter bird is named Larry, after, of course, NBA legend Larry Bird. Co-founder Biz Stone is a Boston Celtics fan :3

*Was
R.I.P. Larry

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Heartomaton posted...

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Reminds me of the time I was watching this show about San Francisco in the 60s. There were people who would hand out maps to young people just getting to town so they could "avoid" the drug and orgy houses.

Everyone knows about how birds are sensitive to gases and that coal miners would take canaries with them as early detectors of dangerous gases like carbon monoxide...

But luckily for the birdies, they eventually developed the canary resuscitator! If the canary stared to become ill, they could open up the oxygen to save the birb :3

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