Fun Facts Dump - Part 2

May 6, 2016 12:56 AM

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Neat.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

so it was being bitten by the ants that gave her an adrenaline rush, not the falling thousands of feet thinking she was about to die?

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

That person's finger in the banana picture. lol

10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

-40 deg Celsius is also -40 deg Farenheit

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

But, Hawkeye uses hearing aids, that's why he's such a great shot, his sight is heightened die to his lack of hearing

10 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

What's the site called for free text books, planning on going back to school soon so that would be nice lol

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fact fact fact fact..... owl under a mushroom....fact fact fact fact

10 years ago | Likes 130 Dislikes 0

Fact fact fact, this photo vaguely looks like a painting, fact fact fact, this horse has a horse shaped marking...

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

The owl was in fact under the mushroom though

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can confirm

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do squirrels really need to be trained to crack nuts?

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

They beach themselves on PORPOISE.... ....

10 years ago | Likes 122 Dislikes 3

longsighhh +1

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

get out

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

huhuhuhuhuhuh

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Northland / Karikari is in New Zealand, for those interested

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What frame does this reference? Also do you mean Kerikeri?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wow i caught this in usersub i feel so accomplished

10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 3

LETS RIDE TO THE FRONT PAGE

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

YAS

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm getting a Soylent Green vibe here

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

That's... that's a very good (and thunderously creepy) point.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

and roughly 7500 mirder suicides.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

it's merdur you walnut

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

how dare you. I know... no selfies.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...and this candle reveals a cute dinosaur...AS IT BURNS!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"A dying nazi tiger once flew to the moon to battle cancer and created an explosion so big he was awarded a Nobel prize"

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Let's move to Fuggerei!

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

If I remember well, you need a certain status though or originate from the family that used to live in the flat/house back then.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's some interesting shit in this dump. True or not.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Are we sure about the not helping a stranded dolphin thing OP? Seems kina fishy..

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"Nobody knows who named our planet Earth."

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 5

#8 We've been calling it Earth since before we knew it was a planet. Earth, like, the ground, as in not sky or water.

10 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Or fire.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago (deleted May 17, 2016 3:41 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

the dinosaurs

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Donny

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I did.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The chicken, or maybe it was the egg...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What waste of perfectly good tea.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Cries in British

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

xD

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*cries in Canadian*

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One divorce is 30 years is great... but now tell me how many murders occured

10 years ago | Likes 459 Dislikes 9

This should be higher in the comments

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And how many just split up but remained "married" for taxation purposes

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

300* years

10 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Oh right, the murders

10 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Imagine if you want a divorce because your partner is abusive... That room would be your nightmare.

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

There was a spoon so there were super slow murders... or spoon torture ever watched that? https://youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The smart people just got a divorce in the next town over. Only stupid poor people without jobs would manage to waste two weeks for divorce.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And for part of that time, divorce was illegal anyway.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Not Cathlic so it is legal.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not really... I mean, perhaps in some Catholic countries, but 300 years ago Protestantism did exist, and besides Romania's Orthodox anyway.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

*scrolls to the comments to see what is getting disproved*

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Pretty much every one that gets checked has something wrong with it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why aren't all ultrasounds 3D printed. Because I, for one, have no fucking clue what I'm looking at.

10 years ago | Likes 208 Dislikes 2

I would think twice about 3D ultrasound. The increased harmonics used for the image are pretty intense and effect are unclear.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Because 3D ultra sound are expensive.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

3D ultrasound is usually very clear and becoming more popular. check it out. majorly creepy.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

(1/?) There is a study going on right now to see if US is potentially harmful for fetuses, since you're heating up very sensitive tissue.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

(2/?) As a radiotechnician student, I can assure you that diagnostic US is really helpful, but these 3D-scans have no clinical relevance.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

(3/?) Basically, it's a good to be cautiousness. People performing 3D-US scans generally aren't schooled medical personnel anyway.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They look like you're looking at a ball of flesh in a fishbowl.... because you're looking at a ball of flesh in a fishbowl.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

I agree. It either looks blobby or like souls of the damned

10 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 0

Souls of the damned look more like burning skulls that are susceptible to a shotgun blast to the face.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To be fair, fetuses look like flesh amalgamations of the damned. And blobby.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

wtf kind of creature have you spawned?!

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I've never been pregnant but everytime I've been able to recognize a baby in an ultrasound it's looked creepy as fuck

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The Yakuza kidnapped newly orphaned girls (children) to use as sex slaves whilst distributing disaster aid. Thats why the got in before cops

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Oh shit. That's bad.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also, they owned the warehouses with the supplies..

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why is nobody talking about the fact that there is someone whos unlucky enough to have a parachute fail, fall on a fire ant hill, and LIVE??

10 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 2

but according to the post it was LUCKY they fell on the fire ants, it kept their heart going. Which honestly sounds like total BS

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure you'd have ALL the adrenaline possible once you realize your chute isn't opening. Fire ants unnecessary.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

1. she was under reserve parachute, but not fully functional. So not 50 meter/second impact, but about 15 (enough to kill too). She went 2)

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

2. to coma and her right side bones were shattered. Not sure if ants played some role in this. Humans could be hard to kill.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Because it didn't actually happen

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Pretty sure it did. There's doumentation and stuff

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it did. More to say, there are tens of cases od survical like this (without the ants of course)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, It did.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It might have, but if she was falling from 14,500 feet, which is what another article about her says, she would have reached terminal 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Velocity (118mph~) long before she hit the ground at "80" miles per hour. She also should have had a backup chute, which is not mentioned2/3

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And is fairly standard equipment for a skydiver who has skydove(?) multiple times

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gods when I see things like the pictures of people's faces getting sucked into phones I just think: "Oh fuck off."

10 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 1

Right? How long did he take in photoshop at home to make those? A bit hypocritical imo.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I agree. I feel like it's the cheapest modern angle of expressing your artistic insight on human nature. Like wow so deep maaaan.

10 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

It genuinely reminds me of hearing people go on about walkmans and how kids just always listen to music. Well maybe walking around is boring

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Looks kinda like The Wire to me (from Doctor Who)...

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I didn't have a phone until last year. Guess what, I didn't talk with random people in public then I and still don't. Shocking, I know.

10 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Old people nagging...So annoying..

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But at least I can easily keep in contact with my friends now. Sooooo evil

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I hope all of this or most of it is true, is uplifting. ..

10 years ago | Likes 97 Dislikes 5

The greece one is clearly photoshopped. The boat at least. You can see where the propeller was.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The one with the ants is fucking bs

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The one with 88 cents rent is, the only demand is that you pray 4 times a day for the Fugger family. If not, you're thrown out. True story.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As an Arkansas resident I can the one about the Crater of Diamonds State Park. I've even been there.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Denmark students one is sorta true :-?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

idd. It's a weird way of putting it, but it is true though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yea, SU is a strange thing to explain :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The name of the sculpture is bullshit, artists wikipedia mentions this 'fact' specifically. Safest to assume they are all nonsense.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can at least assure you that the 'Animal bridges' in the Netherlands are true, we call them ecoducts/ecopassages

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If part 1 is anything to go by, most of these are probably bullshit as well.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well I have been on the giant bunny once, so I can confirm that at last that one is real

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I am Italian and I've NEVER heard of it!! Where is it??

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Actually fun, whether or not they're facts.

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Well, 2 is 'Ni', and 3 is 'San' ... but 23 isn't Ni-San, it would be Nijyuusan.

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Right, but sometimes in English we say twenty-three and sometimes we say two, three, depending on context

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Twenty three isn't two three

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the ink one ended up debunked and the 14 year old was wrong

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kind of doubting the trained squirrels

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I did too.....google

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I remember watching a featurrete of the movie as a kid where it showed that some squirrels were trained, but for wide shots CGI was used.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Well they said forty and there were like, a hundred squirrles in that shot, so probably some kind of CGI mirroring?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I believe it. I have my 2 cats better trained than most people's dogs- and people say you can't train cats. *proud cat-momma.*

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 7

Idk why someone downvoted you but that's awesome.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Two domestic animals used to captivity and human contact is different to 40 typically wild animals.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"The creators of Adidas and Puma were brothers"...and Nazis.

10 years ago | Likes 1156 Dislikes 21

The people who seem to be the most obsessed either them are the sort those men would want to kill off. Ah, irony.

10 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 3

Hugo Boss was a Nazi also.

10 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

why do you think their uniforms were fresh af?

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Yes.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Adolf and Rudolf Daslers

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

People still don't believe me when I tell them Adidas means for Adi Dasler.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

One was a Nazi, the other was a Jew.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

If one was a jew that means both were jews

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, they're good at inspiring people to run!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did Nazi that coming

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And w. Bushes grandpa worked with them. And a shitload of people tried to overthrow the USA for them and weren't even prosecuted.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

And both best friends with my grandfather!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And they lived in Herzogenaurach where thier production is till today

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not every nazi supported concentration camps

10 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 14

That makes it soooo much better

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

#notallnazis

10 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

savage

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Perhaps not, but they all supported Hitler, who definitely did.

10 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 7

True, but it was proven that many Nazi's were not aware of that type of thing.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

People work for all kinds of psychopaths, it puts food on the table.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

not a valid defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Better quit that bank job

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lockheed Boing, Northrop and General Dynamics all sold weapons to a war criminal (Bush Jr.), whats your point?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

I must have missed the part where he was accused, tried, and convicted of war crimes. Surely you aren't speaking out of your ass.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Using falsified evidence to invade a sovereign country is a warcrime, conviction or not. Just because some people are above the law we are

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Human nature allows "us" to compartmentalize to a horrifying degree. I bet not every Trump supporter is a lunatic racist, for example.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

But if you're not one, then why even support someone who is openly a lunatic, racist and incompetent person overall, in the first place?

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I don't like trump but according to people I know they don't think the shutting the borders stuff will happen so it doesn't bother them

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Nazi Germany it was the party or prison or worse... Not sure what excuse trump supporters have

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

In the case of the Nazi's, I don't believe people were given a democratic option.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Because Hitler did what he promised: Raised Germany great from the ashes and did one heck of a job at it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Old English eorthe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aarde and German Erde.

10 years ago | Likes 194 Dislikes 4

Spanish Tierra, French Terre, Italian Terre

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

From the Latin Terra.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

*eorðe/eorþe

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Yes, but WHO named it....

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Kinda no-one. Every culture usually just named it earth/soil/land. The name just continued in a larger context.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

In arabic it is ardh

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I think it meant no one knows who decided the name for our planet would be the same as the name for soil.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

In the middle ages writers often referred to earth as middle earth (as it is in the middle between heaven and hell) and as heaven was 1/

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

often depicted as being in the sky, and hell below the earth (and that symbolism has carried over to today) it makes sense that people 2/

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

would automatically refer to the planet as earth. 3/3

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For example, the medieval monk, Bede, wrote "we call the earth a globe."

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That nice entomology still does not explain who decided to call it earth

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

*etymology

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yep and a common aspect of all languages is that they all derived the name of the planet from the word for 'ground’ or ‘soil’.

10 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

Who wants to live on a planet called Earth, Morty? It's name *burp* literally means dirt.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

3/4 is water, let's name it after the tiny part we live on. Human logic. :)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Only one the surface

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, geologically, earth is almost entirley iron, so Metal might be the most accurate planetary name. I'll give you that.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They didn't have google earth or even proper maps back then

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn. Then how could they show others where they were asked for their opinions?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't really tell what you were trying to say there.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We have so much now. What a time to be alive :D

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True, better yet is that it only seems to be ramping up. I found /r/futurology the other day and had my mind blown.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh yeah. Looking at maps pre 1400s or so is just asking for a headache. But they knew of giant oceans, likely covering most of the world.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By that point they already had been referring to the planet as the soil for centuries, and I doubt anyone was pedantic enough to change it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

such as?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In Polish "ziemia" and "Ziemia" mean respectively "dirt/ground" and "Earth". They are spelled exactly the same, of course.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Earth translates to γη in greek which comes from the word Γαία (Gaia) a poetic form of land. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Earth also means soil, Erde in German means soil.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

In Hebrew Eretz (pronounced like earth but w/ a tz... Lol) means Land

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Italian name for Earth is Terra which is also the word for ground or soil, it originates from the Latin word for land

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And it's "Terre" in French for the exact same reason.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

in sweden we call it Jorden, translated "The Earth" (where the "-en" is our "the"

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

jordbær is one of my favorite words

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you sure it's not الأرض?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

so close, but it's actually الأرضen! :D

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ols English eorþe "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," Spanish Tierra "land, ground,soil"

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Indonesian bumi "land, nature, universe, land, world"

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Not all languages mang

10 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 4