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When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
Mitochondria are actually parasites with their own genome and means of replicating. They will even actively defend their turf when other intracellular parasites appear.
Annoyingly, they can possess disease-causing genetic mutations which only appear in specific parts of the body, too.
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
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?
The 300 Spartans were not the only ones that died at Thermopylae.
They were joined by 700 Thespians who did not have some macho ridiculous warrior creed of never retreating as they were not professional soldiers. They were just a bunch of guys trying to do the right thing protecting their homes.
700 Thespians who did not have some macho ridiculous warrior creed
Such drama queens.
Chronologically, Tyrannosaurus rex was closer to humans than to sauropods.
Closer? It’s standing right behind me isn’t it?
It’s closer than it appears.
The moon of course causes the tides, but the tides are also causing the moon to drift away from earth.
And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.
We’re also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon’s apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants’ accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they’d happen any time the moon passed through the giant’s shadow.
And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.
I have been noticing lately that the days seem longer, nice to know why
Rattlesnakes get mosquito bites.
The last grandchild (i.e. no “greats”) of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, died in 2025. For comparison, Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president in the 1860s.
I learned Calculus from one of them.
We live on Earth v2.0
There was a body in our orbit and then another large body (neither were planets, I guess, since they hadn’t test cleared their solar orbits of other bodies) crashed into it. The heavier parts stayed in what became the Earth we know. The lighter parts coalesced into what is now the Moon. The Moon is slowly leaving us because it has enough leftover motion to do so.
Significantly more aluminum, calcium, titanium, magnesium, and silicon. My understanding is that a large percentage of the moon was the earth’s former crust.
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all “yeah yeah we know. Here’s a movie we made of it” and the alien is all “WTF? How do they know that?”
The human brain is amazing and can predict the wildest things. You can look around a room and, without touching a thing, understand what it would feel like to lick random items.
Enjoy!
a baby’s mission is to put pretty much everything they can into their mouth. we have trained long and hard to be able to make those predictions!
It’s probably why the primal brain inside is tempted to “lick it” when presented with a new texture.
This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.
I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.
Wait but this is useful.
Pythagoras (of Theorem fame) thought that beans were evil, and were also tiny humans.
https://thehistorianshut.com/2024/06/26/pythagoras-curious-relationship-with-beans/
Pythagoras advised followers to “abstain from beans because they are flatulent and partake most of the breath of life; and besides, it is better for the stomach if they are not taken, and this again will make our dreams in sleep smooth and untroubled” (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.24).
Later, in a passage insinuating that the problem with the beans potentially resided in mystic ritual purification issues, Diogenes Laertius wrote that Pythagoras called for, “abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg‑sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform mystic rites in the temples” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.33).
Finally, in terms of potential symbolic reasons for the bean ban, Diogenes wrote, “According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.34).
This is “God Impregnated me” level unhinged, but with lower stakes. I infer he may have farted once with an attractive partner and it scarred him.
Pythagoras was a cult leader. That’s the real story there!
Dont do this.
You can hurt yourself if you grab the top of your thumb with the fingers of the same hand and make a motion like youre banging a hammer with your wrist.
Dont do this.
Does it injure the thumb if you do this? I can’t give myself another rock climbing injury
I think that’s also anold school orthopedic test when done gently for compression?
The Tacoma Dome is the world’s largest wooden dome
You can’t resurrect a horse
Not with that attitude
Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.
Hell I can’t
Vegetables don’t exist. A good deal of the “vegetables” you eat are fruits. The rest are leaves, roots, flowers, and stems.
Shapes don’t exist because actually they are all squares, circles, triangles, etc.
Shapes & vegetables both exist. Provide your definition of Vegetable & source if you actually want to push this issue.
Vegetables, like shapes, and fish, have no objective definition which includes everything you would put into it but excludes everything you would reject from the group.
And yet, if I show you various things, you’ll be able to tell me if they are a vegetable or not. Vegetables are a social construct, not a biological construct. But that’s OK. Money is also a social construct.
“Fish don’t exist”-ass fact.
Yes they do. Something lacking a definition in one specific profession does not remove it’s definition from other fields or the colloquial definition.
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is technically a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in Fruit Salad
Wisdom is understanding that all word categories are largely arbitrary, based on the distinctions which are needing to be made at any one time, and thus to apply the scientific, botanical definition of “fruit” to a general culinary context is foolish.
Tomatoes and watermelon are both berries.
Strawberries are not berries.
Sharks are older than trees.
The appendix isn’t useless it helps repopulate your gut bacteria after you’ve been ill.
Some people have their heart on the right side of their chest. Some people have all their organs swapped round - really confuses surgeons.
“German” chocolate cakes aren’r actually German.
Depends on what you mean by that. The creator’s last name was German. So really, they are German. Just not the way you are thinking.
It’s the same with Ceasar salad. It’s not the Caesar you are thinking of, but it is still Ceasar. The guy Ceasar from Mexico.
Häagen-Dazs ice cream is from the Bronx, New York.
Sind sie Deutsch?
The most efficient base is e, cosmologists describe the big bang as a rapid expansion of spacetime that doesn’t say anything about it being the beginning of time it’s just the furthest back that can be currently measured, and the egg came before the chicken.
Sylvester Stallone’s name is “Sylvester.”
What a lovely name. It means “of the forest”.
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I don’t see what’s unclear here.
The eyes are the most sensitive part of the body. If they pull a hair from your ass, tears will come to your eyes.
I have uncountable ones and don’t know where to startXD
Use Cantor diagonalization
Me too, but I forgot most of them!
Start with the first one! SMH.
The Comb Formation is alive.
Dang. Your mom is old as heck!
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If you mix Sparkling water with instant milk, you got the taste of spoiled milk!
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