weird facts

[Fixed Cross]

In German, "jungle" is spelled "Dschungle".

[Mithus]

In German, "jungle" is spelled "Dschungle".

No, it's spelled "Dschungel".

[Fixed Cross]

Duhh good catch
another fact

The association between yeasts and angiosperms dates to the Cretaceous, 

[Keleuthis]

You get a boner when you die, or something.

[Fixed Cross]

You get a boner when you die, or something.

You win.

[wuliheron]

The average air-speed velocity of an unlade swallow, whether African or European, is 23mph. Knowing this fact could save your life.

[Mr Reasonable]

Can they carry coconuts?

[wuliheron]

Can they carry coconuts?

Only very tiny ones.

[Fixed Cross]

The average air-speed velocity of an unlade swallow, whether African or European, is 23mph. Knowing this fact could save your life.

That figures! Thats about a ninth of the dive-speed of the Peregrine Falcon.
See things are already starting to stitch together.

[Arcturus Descending]

There are more microbes on a person's body than there are humans on Earth.

Read more: http://www.scienceclarified.com/scitech ... z5HwFJXB2v

I find that to be very interesting though a bit scary.
But talk about inter-connectedness or outer-connectedness.

[Fixed Cross]

I would find it a lot scarier if it were the other way around.

[Arcturus Descending]

I would find it a lot scarier if it were the other way around.

lol I did not expect that. Can you edify me as to the reason why? Is it because many of those microbes are healthy and positive ones?

An enquiring mind would really like to know.

[Fixed Cross]

I would find it a lot scarier if it were the other way around.

lol I did not expect that. Can you edify me as to the reason why? Is it because many of those microbes are healthy and positive ones?

An enquiring mind would really like to know.

Lol no when you grow up knowing of the trillions of beings that crowd your skin and innards, and given how humans tend to lose all integrity in crowds, the idea that there would be even more humans than these crawling micro creatures is just terrifying.

[Gloominary]

Apparently humans are more ancestrally related to echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etcetera) than they are arthropods (insects, crustaceans, arachnids...) and mollusks (squid, octopi, cuttlefish...).

You'd think because arthropods and mollusks have heads, faces, brains and the former an exoskeleton (we have an endoskeleton), they'd be more ancestrally related to vertebrates than headless echinoderms, but nope.

So heads, faces and brains independently evolved a few times, weird.

[Mr Reasonable]

You get a boner when you die, or something.

You also poop when you die.

[MagsJ]

You get a boner when you die, or something.

You also poop when you die.

Poop is an understatement.. it literally instantly rushes out of you, like the great flood.

[barbarianhorde]

There are more potholes in Montreal than there are stars in our galaxy.

[Pedro I Rengel]

La, la.

[Arcturus Descending]

It takes so long for a star to die that astronomers have not yet observed a fully dead star.

[Arcturus Descending]

A human brain operates on about 15 watts.

[barbarianhorde]

Men can piss standing up straight, and with some trouble, so can women.

A Roman woman recently crossed to the middle of the street as I approached, lifted her long skirt and just let it rip onto the cobblestones.
I felt like I was in the exorcist.

[barbarianhorde]

A human brain operates on about 15 watts.

that should be plenty.

[Arcturus Descending]

The center of the Milky Way smells of rum and tastes like raspberries.

https://www.howitworksdaily.com/the-mil ... spberries/

Now that is more an interesting fact. There can never be an end to what we can learn.

[promethean75]

Fact: in Arizona, it is illegal to promote the use of or own more than 6 dildos.

[Fixed Cross]

Trees suck up the water from the ground by negative pressure, distributed throughout the near molecular scaled vessels in the leafs.

Meaning they can suck much harder in summer, so the growing of leafs is like a quasi self-perpetuating mechanism. Which is maybe why trees grow fruits, excess of negative pressure.

So because they have leaves, they are able to suck up water to such great heights as to grow leafs there. A tree 100 m tall must generate 10 atmospheres of negative pressure to get the water to the leafs, which are coming into being in order to embody the work of bringing up the resources for their coming into being.

Negative pressure is, roughly speaking, the tendency of water to stick to other substances rather than to itself. To witness this principle in action, now watch a Canadian wring out a washcloth in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM