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

[PJFrylar]

Crows actually are really smart, they have been observed to understand traffic patterns at stop light intersections, so they drop nuts on the road so cars run it over to crack it open then go pick it up when light changes. Stuff like that.

I'd believe that. I saw a crow using a crosswalk once. It looked deliberate to me, but it was hardly conclusive. I was pulling out of a parking lot and saw a crow land at the edge of the sidewalk. It hopped off the curb and than walked into the cross walk lines - it was a few inches away when it hopped down. Since no one was behind me, I decided to stop and see what it would do. It was walking across the road inside the crosswalk lines, but not exactly straight, still at a slight angle. I was willing to oblige it to see what it would do when it reached the other side of the road, but it only made it about 40% of the way before a car approached to take a turn into the parking lot, and the crow flew off. It was interesting, but like I said, hardly conclusive that the crow intended to use the crosswalk.

Maybe it said a lot and your friend just wasn't paying attention.

Poor crow can't get any respect. I also might not just have a good understanding of the crow's vocabulary. It was a fairly brief exchange, just a response to me talking about the crosswalk crow.

 

[KMFJD]

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Interesting.

 

[Pulsar]

I'm not one to quibble.... but where the fuck did michigan go?

 

[who?]

It's to the left of that lower peninsula. Windsor Ontario is next to Detroit but a little bit more south than Detroit.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is actually a map of the future, when Nestlee completes their 2020 plan of draining all the great lakes.

 

[Charmonium]

Trees contribute to pollution when the weather gets hot. For example they release isoprene which when it reacts with nitrogen oxides like what you find in auto exhaust, it forms ozone.

At normal daily maximum summer temperatures, roughly 25° Celsius on average, plants’ chemical emissions contributed to about 6 to 20 percent of ozone formation in the simulations. At peak temperatures during the heat wave, when temperatures soared to over 30°C, plant emissions spiked, boosting their share of ozone formation to up to 60 percent. Churkina says she and colleagues were not surprised to see the seemingly contrary relationship between plants and pollution. “Its magnitude was, however, quite amazing,” she says.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article...ecome-surprisingly-large-source-air-pollution

 

[shortylickens]

Apparently the Planet Express building has a bowling alley between the ground floor and the cavernous lava pit. In 7 seasons it never gets used and only viewed once for a split second.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

This is actually a map of the future, when Nestlee completes their 2020 plan of draining all the great lakes.

Oh geez

 

[KMFJD]

 

[IronWing]

England's top is Harry Potter Tour Studio? LOL!

Tuvalu:
http://www.tuvaluislands.com/stamps/phil-bur/TPB.htm

 

[Pulsar]

Yeah, US is central park? A lot of people go there because of New York, but that's a pretty shitty 'Attraction'.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah, US is central park? A lot of people go there because of New York, but that's a pretty shitty 'Attraction'.

I was sure disappointed. I spent hours hanging around the Tavern on the Green and Zuul never did show up.

 

[shortylickens]

Theres like 500 things to see on the National Mall and people go to new york.

What the fuck?

 

[Charmonium]

The average human could have outrun a T. Rex.

For years, Hollywood has depicted the scary-looking Tyrannosaurus rex as a prehistoric nightmare for anything -- or anyone -- in its path. But new research published in the journal PeerJ claims that this giant dinosaur with small arms probably couldn’t run very fast. Using computer simulations to analyze the brute’s muscular and skeletal strength, the researchers determined that high-speed pursuits were probably not its forte. They estimate that the T. rex probably couldn’t move faster than 12 miles per hour (19 km/h). Given its body mass, they believe that its legs would have snapped under its own weight at higher speeds.

Who's afraid of the big, bad T. rex?

• Scientists previously assumed that the T. rex could run as fast as 45 mph (72 km/h). Research lead William Sellers said the dinosaur “was actually quite slow and therefore not a pursuit predator. Running would have been impossible because its skeleton just isn’t strong enough.”
  
• Sellers and his team also think that the T. rex would have become less agile with age, and that it had to adapt and change the way it hunted as it aged.
  
• The study suggests that other large, two-legged dinosaurs -- Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus and Acrocanthosaurus -- were also not particularly quick.

http://www.wisegeek.com/could-any-human-have-outrun-a-tyrannosaurus-rex.htm

 

[shortylickens]

I was bored and looked it up:

Integrous is a word.
It hasnt been used since the 1700's.

 

[tynopik]

only one ship in the US Navy has sunk an enemy ship



USS Constitution

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah, US is central park? A lot of people go there because of New York, but that's a pretty shitty 'Attraction'.

That kinda surprises me too, I would have figured Yellowstone or Grand Canyon would be higher on the list.

 

[shortylickens]

Scrubs was shot at an old unused hospital:

http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/North_Hollywood_Medical_Center

which was demolished a couple years after the series ended.

 

[sdifox]

only one ship in the US Navy has sunk an enemy ship



USS Constitution

Subs are not ships? Pretty sure Americans have sunk some subs.

 

[Kaido]

I was sure disappointed. I spent hours hanging around the Tavern on the Green and Zuul never did show up.

Look, if someone asks if you're the Keymaster, you say YES, okay?

 

[tynopik]

Subs are not ships? Pretty sure Americans have sunk some subs.

it's talking about currently commissioned ships

all other USN ships that have sunk an enemy ship have been retired

 

[sdifox]

it's talking about currently commissioned ships

all other USN ships that have sunk an enemy ship have been retired

Ah, ok. Cuz otherwise USN is a very expensive hobby.

 

[shortylickens]

Tom Savini was in Vietnam

His makeup effects were designed to resemble the dead bodies he saw after combat.
Horror audiences complained his work looked unrealistic.

 

[KMFJD]

How to disarm a WW2 naval mine

https://i.imgur.com/oX4Khld.gifv