Stuff you didn't know and probably don't care about

[KMFJD]

how did they find that?

No idea, i doubt it injured anyone though.

 

[Charmonium]

It's harder to forget things that you sleep on. Hence the saying 'don't go to bed angry.'

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...es-tend-to-stick-around-if-you-sleep-on-them/

 

[shortylickens]

Russia celebrates Christmas on January 7th.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and became the 10th President of the USA has two living grandsons. Not great-great-grandsons and not even great-grandsons, just ordinary grandsons. Tyler men seem to have long lives and sometimes have kids late in life. President Tyler had 15 kids and his youngest son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853 when ex-President Tyler was 63 years old. Lyon's two youngest sons (John's grandsons), Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr and Harrison Ruffin Tyler were born in 1924 and 1928 when Lyon Sr. was 71 and 75 years old. They're both still live today, Lyon Jr is 93 and Harrison Ruffin is 89.

And this was in the days before Viagra.

 

[Charmonium]

A shark can go through as many as 20,000 teeth in its lifetime.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-many-teeth-does-a-great-white-shark-have.htm

A great white shark has about 300 large, triangular-shaped teeth with jagged, serrated edges, arranged in many rows in its mouth. When a shark clamps down on something, or someone, it will shake its head violently from side to side, in order to rip off hunks of flesh. The first two rows of teeth are used for grabbing and cutting the prey, while the teeth in the last rows are replacements for teeth that get broken, get worn down, or become substitutes for teeth that fall out. A great white can lose and replace as many as 20,000 teeth over a lifetime.

Seven thousand pounds of trouble:

• A great white shark reaches adulthood about nine years after birth. The largest can grow to as long as 21 feet (6.4 meters) and weigh more than 7,000 pounds (3,175 kg).
  
• Great white sharks eat fish and other sea animals, such as seals and sea lions. The predator’s liver can make up to 24 percent of its body weight.
  
• The great white has only one natural enemy. Killer whales, or orcas, can paralyze a shark by flipping it upside down. They then hold the shark by the mouth, and eventually suffocate it.

 

[shortylickens]

South Park is up to 281 episodes.

 

[IronWing]

The Jacquard loom, invented in 1804 used chains of punch cards to control weaving patterns. A precursor using punched tape was invented in 1725. Computer programming followed a similar path from paper tape to punch cards.

 

[shortylickens]

I just watched a bunch of Youtube vids. It seems dry cleaning is not dry at all. Its quite wet.

 

[KMFJD]

Hiking in Antarctica, amazing view

 

[KMFJD]

 

[Charmonium]

There are approximately 130 million different books in existence.

http://www.wisegeek.com/has-anyone-calculated-how-many-different-books-have-been-published.htm

If you wanted to find out how many different books have ever been written, you’d probably start with a Google search. In 2010, the tech company came up with the answer. According to Leonid Taycher, a Google software engineer working on the Google Books project, that number is 129,864,880. The search began with the ISBN cataloging system, but many other programmable searches were required in order to come up with a more accurate count.

A bit of light reading?

• Paperback and hardback editions of a text were counted as two books, because different versions often contain additional forewords and commentaries.
  
• Google’s goal is to scan every existing book, and the online giant expects that to take around 10 years. In all, they hope to digitize about 4 billion pages and 2 trillion words.
  
• In 2005, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers filed class-action lawsuits, claiming Google is infringing on copyrights.

 

[Charmonium]

Why zebras have stripes - it's not for any of the common reasons you've heard. Click here for the answer. Ahaha, kidding.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...pattern-confuses-flies-stop-landing-skin.html

Scientists think they know how zebras got their stripes – and the answer is far from black and white.

They say that despite usually being thought of as camouflage, the stripes more likely evolved to keep disease-carrying flies at bay.

Bizarre as this sounds, studies show that flies find it harder to land on stripes – and that zebra-sized bands are particularly effective at keeping them away.

Studies show that flies find it harder to land on stripes - and that zebra-sized bands are particularly effective at keeping them away

Stripes are particularly thin on the lower legs – an area extra to flies when they suck blood from other animals such as cows.

 

[John Connor]

This past March 11th was the 199th anniversary of Mary Shelley's publication Frankenstein.

 

[IronWing]

Union Pacific is rebuilding a Big Boy.

 

[IronWing]

The Kola Superdeep borehole holds the record for deepest hole ever drilled at 40,230 feet below surface (deeper than Alky's mom). The world's longest borehole is the Z-44 Chayvo well in eastern Russia at 40,502 feet. The Chayyo well is not completely vertical so is not as deep as the Kola borehole.

 

[Cappuccino]

when i was a kid i thought i didnt have to work in my life now im a adult and i still think i dont need to work but i work feelsbadmen i am 14 yers old i am from the future

 

[Kaido]

when i was a kid i thought i didnt have to work in my life now im a adult and i still think i dont need to work but i work feelsbadmen i am 14 yers old i am from the future

/r/im14andthisisdeep

 

[Cappuccino]

/r/im14andthisisdeep

It's emotionally draining.

 

[IronWing]

The U.S. National Tick Collection is a thing.

With over 125,000 accessioned lots, over one million specimens, their associated data, and an extensive library (reprints, monographs, and books), the U.S. National Tick collection is one of the largest curated tick collections in the World, if not the largest.

 

[KMFJD]

Robots sorting system

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Robots sorting system

Give those things spider legs and it would everyones nightmare come true.

 

[Charmonium]

hot baths are good for you

The evidence for the benefits of passive heating -- whether from relaxing in a hot bath or from spending time in a sauna -- is beginning to mount. The latest study, conducted in 2017 at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, found that an hour-long hot bath could burn as many calories as a 30-minute walk. And this research is certainly not the first to outline the benefits of relaxing in the tub. Other studies have suggested that passive heating can lower blood sugar, reduce inflammation, and decrease blood pressure.

Heat therapy may be good for you:

• The 2015 research in Finland suggested that frequent visits to the sauna could reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke -- at least in men.
  
• Studies conducted at the University of Oregon found that passive heating can increase levels of nitric oxide, a molecule that dilates blood vessels and reduces blood pressure.
  
• The first study on passive heating, conducted at Colorado’s McKee Medical Center in 1999, showed improvements in body weight, blood sugar control, and a reduced dependence on insulin in diabetic patients after three weeks of hot-tub therapy.

http://www.wisegeek.com/are-hot-baths-good-for-you.htm

 

[KMFJD]

 

[KMFJD]

Cutting a water droplet using a superhydrophobic knife on superhydrophobic surfaces

 

[SillyOReilly]

If you do a little research, it is a bit more complicated than that

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