There are more Panda Express restaurants than there are pandas.
Damn, that’s depressing. But considering the pandas sense of self preservation, it makes total sense.
Cats can’t taste sugar.
They can taste protein in a different way than we can though.
Khajiit in shambles
They still come for your sweets because they smell the fat in them, typically from butter in baked goods or chocolate.
Wife says this is a fun fact.
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
Ducky from Land Before Time was murdered by her step dad for being too famous
Factually incorrect.
Judith Barsi (and her mother) was killed by her biological father before he killed himself.
There is no evidence pointing to any anger of fame. Both of her major roles (The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven)were released after her death.
The father was an abusive drunk that threated to kill the family and himself multiple times.
The clarification is appreciated
The guy who shot john Wikes Booth was once solicited by prostitutes. He was so so appalled by his boner that he decided to castrate himself with pinking shears (scissors). He then goes to church and walks it off before seeing a doctor.
The real sad part is that he was undeniably driven insane by his work as a hat maker. Fur hats were shaped and then brushed with mercury, which led to hat makers getting mercury poisoning from the fumes.
Basically the poor guy melted his brain, chopped of his balls, enlisted into the union army and was forced to march on a boken leg, killed the most infamous man in the world, and was then locked up in an asylum.
Death isn’t synonym of end of the life.
Lack of oxygen at birth doesn’t mean low IQ.
355/113 is the best fractional approximation of pi with less than 5 digits on both numerator and denominator, with 6 decimal digits of precision. It is constructed by taking the sequence of the first 3 odd numbers, each repeated exactly once, as such: “113355”, then splitting the resulting string in halves, taking the first half as denominator, and the second as numerator.
A 4-set venn diagram can’t be constructed with circles because it wouldn’t show exclusive intersections between opposed sets.
A talks to B, B talks to C; A is married, C is not married. Therefore, a married person is talking to a non-married person.
You must be fun at parties 😄
for the third one because it stumped me a bit, there are 2 posibilites:
- Am -> Bu -> Cu
- Am -> Bm -> Cu
Either way there is a married person talking to a non-married person.
Little do they know it’s actually a synonym for Amazon Web Services
Everyone is eventually going to die.
And your pets are most likely to die before you do.
At the rate of advancement of tech it’s conceivable that there is life alive now that may never die.
That’s only an unfun fact if you make it one.
Well, basically. Everyone has a different sense of humour.
That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.
Be careful.
We forget things but we remember people. As long as you take one life lesson from every person you meet you’ll never forget the important stuff.
“There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued…
“The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"
Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don’t tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you’ve forgotten!
No, you owe me a million dollars! Remember that small loan I gave you?
oh FUCK
Then why can I feel my corneas through my eyelids?
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Read your source next time. Lmao.
The page literally says it does not occur when blinking lol
You’re never more than eight feet away from a spider.
Did you know that arachnids’ legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion
I wonder if this fact was any part of the inspiration for the Spidertron.
8 feet = 2,438 meter
I’m pretty sure 8ft is less than 2.4km
Europeans use a , instead of a .
I actually knew that. I was just trying to make a funny. But it failed.
I thought it was funny lol
It’s really weird when they do it while speaking English though because then they’re just wrong
What about if you’re on an aircraft or boat? If there are no spiders aboard, you’d be more than 8 feet away.
My partner owns a boat. It has more spiders than any place I’ve ever been.
Several (if not all) of the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion probably didn’t die immediately. They likely remained conscious and aware for at least several seconds, and died on impact with the ocean surface.
Genocides typically are never actually punished and their main perpetrators often get away with it.
If you rape someone in the U.S., your odds of going to jail for it are only 0.01% . A hundredth of a percent. 0.01 out of 100 rapists ever actually see jail or prison.
This one contradicts what he is saying but is still staggeringly low.
Although it does have a lot of assumptions and it looks like it combines female and male victims.
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My bad fam. It was late.
There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic. That we don’t have free will.
And psychologists that believe that feeling of consciousness is a result of the brain developing a self-supervising function for higher order thinking.
Essentially free will is just an illusion.
There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic.
Quantum mechanics involves true randomness, so it is already proven that the universe is not deterministic.
That doesn’t mean we have free will, though. Random actions are no more free than predetermined ones.
I think the argument they make is that quantum randomness doesn’t have any way of influencing our choices, the scales are too different. I disagree, I think quantum randomness is free will, and there’s some sort of quantum amplifier, for lack of a better word, that bridges the gap between particle interactions and consciousness. But since there is no way to prove or disprove such a thing, since it is by definition indistinguishable from chance, it’s basically naval gazing…
Of the 2 compatible explanations, I really like the many worlds theory over hidden variables. Many worlds explains this unexplainable randomness, the probabilistic nature of subatomic particle movements, by saying all possible movements happen…. The probabilities just indicate the likelihood that our reality is the one that movement X happens in.
Some of the top scientists believe in a higher power god. NdGT makes the argument in one of his lectures that until that number is zero you have no right to look down on them for believing in a higher power.
Uh… ok.
I want saying you you but instead the royal you. That’s where a lot of the determinism their cones from. God doesn’t play dice with the universe and all that. Which is entirely taken out of context from Einstein and a lot of people wrongly think Einstein was religious but he wasn’t. Still the quote remains and have kept scientists religious for decades.
I like Sabine Hossenfelders way of explaining things, she disregards god altogether. It’s not necessary for these explanations.
I saw some other scientists basically throwing a hissy fit about determinism, and how they wouldn’t get credit for being so smart and making the discoveries and stuff if determinism was true. Like obviously I’m so smart, I’m making hypotheses so I’ve got free will.
It was utterly embarrassing, I was looking for a legit counter view to see what the other side said. And the first two videos I found were PhDs throwing tantrums on podcasts.
But to those that believe in a god generally, sure, with our current knowledge anything is a possibility… just some theories have more standing than others… but some also are nicer to believe in, and just make sense for a being to want to believe.
What difference does it make?
Well, if true, it doesn’t make any difference. Because it always was and always will be. Nothing makes any difference.
But in another way, it’s kinda neat. I guess it’s simultaneously a not fun fact, and a fun fact.
Lol you posting this is what was always meant to happen, same as how I am here and read your comment and replied.
Of the 2 compatible explanations, I really like the many worlds theory over hidden variables. Many worlds explains this unexplainable randomness, the probabilistic nature of subatomic particle movements, by saying all possible movements happen…. The probabilities just indicate the likelihood that our reality is the one that movement X happens in.
And then you throw the block universe in, and it’s just all the more beautiful.
All possible combinations of atomic interactions all happen. Well “happen” is so linear time thinking, they all just exist.
