"Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans."
"You can see your nose all the time.
It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go.
Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible.
Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again."
"The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space."
"The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple."
"Almost 100% of the matter that composes plants comes from the air, not the ground."
"In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany.
199 398 500 B is ketchup."
"When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator.
Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers."
""OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917."
"German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake"
"Black apples exist.
We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside."
"Moose are naturally attacked by orcas."
"The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive."
"A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage."
"In the US, the dash lines on highways are generally 10 feet long, not 2-3 like most people assume."
"In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%."
"In the 1920s, Hawa‘ian music was the biggest selling category of sheet music."
"There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on earth."
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It's a type of salami
A lot of this is BS.
Because when told to get a stock photo they thought it meant livestock.
Vickie deserves praise.
We are. To further sophisticate the dish we add curry. We call it "Currywurst". One of our greatest culinary accomplishments.
And one spare part number covers two sizes. Typical Automotive behaviour ;-).
What's wrong with having faith in something that is a higher power?
Because it's a f@#king fairytale, that's what's wrong. Believe in yourself, believe in science. That's the only stuff that matters. Believing in made up fantasies other people tell you is the opposite of intelligence.
Mostly, you are right. But believing alone, whether what you believe is real or not, does have an effect on people. Religious people often live longer for example.
Plus, even though people do and have done terrible things in the name of religion, there are a lot of good acts as well.
And on another matter, we know the placebo effect is real.
It's worth experimenting if more is possible there.
Maybe living longer isn't the blessing you seem to think it is.
It's has been scientifically demonstrated that people in the hospital for any reason who are prayed for have worse outcomes.
It only takes about 94 folds to make something the size of the visible universe.
It doesn't get smaller in thickness, it gets exponentionally larger.
And their flesh is toxic yet we still hunt them for their meat, which needs to be fermented just to be "safe" to eat. I truly don't understand food "delicacies"...