When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
Pigs can’t look directly upwards. Neither can we, when standing on all fours. This is because ours and pigs necks are constructed in the same way.
And according to some weirdos on the internet who apparently know some concerning things from experience, human meat tastes the same as pig meat. Tastes like Pork. But now I’m curious why pork & ham & bacon are three distinctly different tastes & textures if they all come from pig.
Giant isopods have a life expectancy of 6-9 years, but one of them in an aquarium went on a hunger strike for 5 years.
The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.
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If you took a horse’s large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.
If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you
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jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
I love this demo.
Thankyou! I’ve seen that before, but lost the link. It’s mind-boggling.
Hey, is that fairy cake?
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts.
https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hitchhikers.Guide/08/text.html
I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.
If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown
The last people on land just have to be a wee bit stronger to keep the tension, then it works out fine.
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system
You would guess this is useless info, but I can use this fun fact to remember how many suns the earth has also.
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.
Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.
Why full circle, though? Is this your last experience with the internet? RIP aeronmelon’s internet experience, 1994-2026
Let’s be honest, it’s been downhill since the Elephant Jokes website.
Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?
The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes
Wouldn’t you say that they’ll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them
It’s hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can’t survive a ~10 foot fall. That’s about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.
Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a funeral and burial and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service.
Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more “marriageable.”
I actually have a theory that I can’t prove, that perhaps a few of the pieces we attribute to Wolfgang were actually hers. Here’s why I think that…
We know they corresponded regularly after she got married and that she continued to compose and send her brother her work, and he wrote back praising her. I have a suspicion that he might have given some of her pieces to be performed, telling patrons they were his. Not to take credit, but so her music would at least be heard.
Again it’s not something I can prove, more like a headcanon thing.
Mozart was also a completely ungovernable furry with ADHD. He was a child genius, but that meant he was sitting in opera rehearsals as a bored teenager.
And when he’d get bored, he’d start finding ways to entertain himself. This included doing things like playing “the floor is lava” while using the orchestra members as platforms, and prancing around while loudly meowing.
And all of them basically put up with it, the same way that modern tour managers put up with annoying frontmen in popular bands.
It’s probably not this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_schön_sauber
I’m now working on a graphic with the following quotes:
Growing up, I was always told that you have to be careful with your words because once they leave your mouth, they belong to the world. But I think it’s the opposite. Your words belong to you until you give them away.
~ John Cena
Lick my ass.
~ W.A. Mozart
i am now mad that this wasn’t included in the movie
Mozart also invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unverifiable theory is that he continued refining the system and it got so good that he used it to compose all his greatest hits and stopped telling anybody about his random music generator.
Pet is french for fart, and Mozart had a fart fetish. It also rhymes.
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I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?
It’s the blood that seems to matter more than the organs, and not all organs follow this rule. Kidneys for example don’t really change much.
more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today
Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.
Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One “major” was the equivalent to what would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.
They had archeologists, kind of wild when you think about it.
Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people’s life choices.
Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine
There are more atoms of hydrogen in a molecule of water than there are stars in the whole solar system.
So, more than the 1 star in our solar system? Did you type that right?
Correct. I essentially said 2 is bigger than 1.
Ha! Good one, I only caught half of that joke.
The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code.
--..dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.
Hey! Same for Rush’s YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is
--.- --.- --..which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don’t care to look up right now.So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.
He says, as if it matters.
It does matter! And I noticed shortly after I posted it, was mildly annoyed, and didn’t bother to fix it.
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Practical use? None I can think of. But I love learning this. Thank you.
Ok that’s pretty genius.
It may not have that much of ause, but that’s exactly why we consider Music to be Art.
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We should pass a funny law that requires all humanoid robots to grunt as they move.
You’ve never been close to one of those clankers, huh? The constant whining of every servo motor is like a bunch of small, high pitched groans in tandem.
I’ve really enjoyed this fact, thank you!!
Muscles can be either voluntary (choosing to lift a chair) or involuntary (a beating heart) as well.
Along these lines: a major league baseball batter must predict where the ball will be before it leaves the pitcher’s hand. There is literally not enough time for the neural signal to get from the eyes to the brain, be processed and then an impulse sent to the arm muscles to swing the bat in the time it takes for the ball to travel to home plate at 95mph.
With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.
I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I’m formally educated.
But I liked all of the drugs.
That means you have all of the problems!
Call me Ash, because I gotta catch 'em all!
Lol yeah its called self medicating
I have ADHD and I trend to get into a comfortabele alcohol Buzz every evening because it shows down the train of emotions. Amphetamines don’t really feel good, nor do other drugs. I hate speed and weed.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
I feel attacked…
OK but you basically just did the mood axis what do the THC, opiate, dissociative anesthetic, and hallucinogenic users have?
That sounds like someone who just wants the pain to go away
And I know psychedelics were good for my trauma
I need answers NOW!
A good fucking time.
Is this related to the cravings for certain food?
No
A quarter of known animal species are beetles.
I thought there were four Beatles.
The specifications for all varieties of “9mm” cartridges (9x17, 9x18, and 9x19) actually call for a projectile with a diameter of 0.355 inches, which is actually 9.017 millimeters.
Similarly, the specification for .38 Special calls for a projectile with a diameter of 0.357 inches.
If you measure the barrel of any firearm chambered in any variety of 9mm, .38 Special, or .357 Magnum, you’ll find that they’re all ostensibly .35 caliber (0.350 inches).
Why? Well, the simplest answer is, things aren’t always what they’re called. In the world of cartridge designations, there are many, many such idiosyncrasies; these are only scratching the surface. I find this interesting because many people perceive cartridge designations as being very uniform, logical, and standardized, but the actual truth is far from that.
In some cases, the number is even made bigger just to make it sound more powerful, such is the case with .460 S&W Magnum, which is a more powerful version of .454 Casull, which itself is a more powerful version of .45 Colt, all of which actually fire a projectile with a diameter measuring 0.452 inches.
The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.
Is that what the 0.350" are referring to?
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.
Kind of, but not really. The bullet actually slightly expands from heating. At the same time though, if you measured the diameter of a cold barrel and a hot barrel you would get two different measurements. If the cold barrel is too tight of a fit the bullet has an increased chance of lodging when it heats up and expands.
This is why bullets moved towards copper jackets with some sort of other metal center chosen for various justifications. The copper jacket is soft, east to expand into rifling grooves, not hard enough to damage and wear out rifling, and can stretch a little if it gets too tight.
Really, the BIGGEST difference is going to be the casing, chambering, and pressure. It’s like how people talk about 5.56 and .223 being the same. They are the same only at face value of size and chambering, but very different on rated pressures. A rifle rated to shoot .223 should only shoot .223. A rifle rated to shoot 5.56 is rated for a higher pressure and can shoot both.
In the same regard to OP: 9mm, .357, and .38 special may measure the same, but all 3 chamber very differently and have different pressures.
Hell, even 9mm has 9mm luger (parabellum) vs 9mm NATO. it’s the same round/casing, but again, different pressure. A gun that shoots luger (lower pressure) should never shoot nato. But a gun that shoots nato (higher pressure) can shoot both.
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
True, but this is also why “stopping power” is then measured in ft-lb (foot-pounds) or joules for metric. Pistols may shoot bigger rounds, but at significantly slower speeds. Less powder for recoil control and less barrel length for pressure build up. The bigger size bullet is a compensation for the smaller gun. A rile with a smaller round has far more energy behind it’s round.
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
.22lr and 5.56 NATO projectiles are practically the same diameter.
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?
Pumpkins are the largest species of…berries. Yes, seriously.
Strawberries are not berries.
Strawberries are an accessory fruit. Tomatoes, Bananas and Watermelons however are berries.
I always suspected watermelon was a berry. It looks like someone inflated a gooseberry! What about zucchini?
Yes! Zucchini as well as Pumpkins are berries.
Berry, why not!
But not apples or peaches
Surely Watermelons are larger than pumpkins? Can they tie for first? Or is the largest pumpkin ever bigger than the largest watermelon?
