This CANNOT be true, is it?
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I didn't know until recently that scars are never truly healed but are held together with collagen. Explanation: "Scar tissue is constantly being remodeled. Without vitamin C, this process fails, causing previously healed wounds to break open." I dread to imagine getting scurvy. I would open up like a burst piñata. 😂 😱
@TheBreadmonkey The Library of Congress* subclass for the Bible is 'BS'.
* Classification system used in most 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 post-secondary libraries as well.
@TheBreadmonkey fun facts? well, a chameleon sits on my head.
besides their ability to change color chameleons have unique eyes constuction. they're the only creatures in the nature that have positive focal power of their eye lenses. that means they see the things around like zoomed in, instead of typical scaled-down image, like the most animals and humans do.
besides their ability to change color chameleons have unique eyes constuction. they're the only creatures in the nature that have positive focal power of their eye lenses. that means they see the things around like zoomed in, instead of typical scaled-down image, like the most animals and humans do.
The game of chess starts with White having 20 possible first moves, and Black having 20 possible replies. Which means by the end of the first move, there are already 400 possible positions available.
By move 3, there are over 3 million possible directions the game could take, and it is estimated that there are more independent chess game possibilities than there are atoms in the Universe.
Check (pun intended) out Shannon Number
@TheBreadmonkey the process of grafting pecans so the nuts can be grown commercially was discovered by a man named Antoine. We only know this because he was enslaved and this was his slave name. We know nothing else about him.
“a Creole Negro gardener and expert grafter of pecan trees.” That’s it. His skill ultimately made possible the propagation of more than 1,000 different pecan varieties, which today are planted commercially in 14 states and on every continent except Antarctica
@TheBreadmonkey Speaking of polar bears, did you know that the fiber called qiviut, made from the undercoat of a musk ox, is one of the warmest on the planet?
Another relatively unknown one is the fiber made from bushy-tailed opossums.
@TheBreadmonkey the very mild swear “berk” is shortened from the Cockney rhyming slang “Berkeley Hunt”, so is actually much ruder than you’d think.
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Rabbits have 28 teeth.
Capybaras have 20 teeth.
@amiserabilist @OrdRadical @TheBreadmonkey All lizards look great in tiny hats.
[not a fact, but I will fight you if you say I’m wrong]
I was surprised to find out that the plants that produce vanilla are orchids. Huh.
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Giraffes and sparrows have the same number of neck vertebrae.
@TheBreadmonkey you can fit all the planets side by side between the earth and the moon. I added it all up to check and it's a surprisingly tight fit
"Trees" are not a biological grouping the way, say, birds are. An oak tree is more closely related to a daisy than either is to a pine tree.
@stevegis_ssg @TheBreadmonkey And palm "trees"? Don't get me started!
@12thRITS @stevegis_ssg @TheBreadmonkey And banana trees! Biggest herb ever.
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If you put one lasagna on top of another lasagna it’s still lasagna, but if you keep piling lasagna on top of lasagna, at some point the lasagna reaches critical mass, collapses into a black hole and it all becomes spaghetti. This is known as Nerdlinger’s theory of lasagna spaghettification
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Speaking of Australia ...
Wombat poop is cubed.
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visiting Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
rules:
1. remain on the boardwalk at all times
2. remain at least 2m from wildlife at all times
the wildlife:
3 media
@OohOkayKay @TheBreadmonkey Occasionally, whales are born with legs.
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey The answer is five, period. 😁
@TazPoltorak @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey
Absolutely not, the answer is 5!
@TheBreadmonkey Here's a really good one: why does a mirror flip things left to right but not upside down?
The mirror doesn't flip anything. If you were to write something on a piece of paper, you would then flip it over to show to the mirror - it is you who is doing the flipping. If you were to write something on a transparent film and then just hold it up, you would be able to read it as normal.
@TheBreadmonkey Think most people have guessed this one
@TheBreadmonkey There is no such thing as the longest river in the world, because Nyle and Amazon compete by charging course and, sometimes, cutting through an arc and making their course shorter.
@TheBreadmonkey The original name of the city of Nottingham was Smottingham. It was founded by the Viking king Snott. It was the Normands who did away with the letter S, because they didn't like two consonants together.
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Greenland sharks have an average lifespan of over 250 years.
Positrons, like they use if you ever have a PET/CT scan, are positively charged electrons.
Or they could be ordinary electrons travelling backwards in time.
No-one knows.
Anyway, your local DGH is using antimatter on a daily basis. Star Trek stuff.
@TheBreadmonkey 99.9% of calico (tri-colour) cats are female. The extremely rare cases of calico males are almost always sterile.
@TheBreadmonkey The number of bars indicating the quality of your mobile reception is meaningless because there is no unified system; it depends solely on the manufacturer of your phone.
@TheBreadmonkey This shouldn't be an obscure fact, but apparently is.
Despite what Charles Dance in The Last Action Hero would have you believe, prosthetic eyes are not spherical.
@TheBreadmonkey A jetty is orthogonal to the shore and made of stone.
A quay runs parallel to the shore and is made of stone.
A pier is orthogonal to the shore and can be made of wood.
A wharf is parallel to the shore and can be made of wood.
Now that I'm started...
An atoll is circular and it is built on living rock.
If you put a rock ring around it for boats, It would be concentric to the land. Would it them be called the Oh Quay Coral?
@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey A whale should never be beached no mattter in which direction. A whoof travels in every direction at 330m/s. The only known sound travelling faster than that is a meow (ca. 470 m/s)
@TheBreadmonkey polar bears and grizzlies are .... essentially of the same DNA.
@TheBreadmonkey The bigeyed sixgilled shark is a shark with big eyes and six gills.
There is more organic matter in one square meter of the temperate rain forest on the coast of British Columbia than anywhere else in the world.
per Sir David Attenborough in PLANET EARTH III,
In case y'all missed it, YouTubers are creating popular videos and making money by cloning Attenborough's voice and laying it under well-done but maybe probably also stolen images of nature, flora and fauna.
That's some evil shit right there.
France's longest land border is with Brazil
This CANNOT be true, is it?
@TheBreadmonkey @regordane This can be correct because while the British Empire considered its overseas territories as colonies, the french consider all of their territories France. Therefore, France is truly a country where the sun never sets.
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I thought this was a satire post sorry 😪
I haven't actually checked the distances but yes, I am fairly sure it's true
@TheBreadmonkey When something is in the offing, the “offing” is the technical term for the distance from the shore to the horizon.
@TheBreadmonkey every radioactive isotope decays in the direction of becoming lead. (MASSIVE oversimplification but basically true.)
Sharks are older than trees and may be older than the rings of Saturn.
@rk @TheBreadmonkey I think Cyanobacteria is older
You can tell they’re Cyanobacteria by the large protruding nose.
@TheBreadmonkey The phrase 'It's not over until the fat lady sings' is incorrect. Once the fat lady has sung, there's a very short piece that's sung by someone else (in Wagner's Walküre).
I can carry on 😁
@TheBreadmonkey a female clown is properly called a clunt
@TheBreadmonkey The country with the largest number of people who consume Whiskey is India. Only 5% of the population drink alcohol, but it's a very large population.
@TheBreadmonkey The American version of Mechano was called Erector.
@TheBreadmonkey 17 bit audio has twice the resolution of 16 bit audio
@TheBreadmonkey The company that sells the largest number of tyres in the world is Lego.
@TheBreadmonkey and their fur only looks white… it’s transparent tubes, or some such!
Yes! This helps insulate them.
Another fun fact is you can get green polar bears as sometimes algae grows inside their hair.
@TwoClownsEating @susiemagoo @TheBreadmonkey Oh! Sloths too can get algae growing through their fur that makes them look green
💚 🦥
@blue @TwoClownsEating @susiemagoo @TheBreadmonkey They also often get infested with moths living in their fur 🤢 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_moth
@Akki@toot.lgbt @blue@sunny.garden @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @susiemagoo@mstdn.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party when the sloth moth pupates it would indubitably spin a silk cocoon, like most other moths. This silk could possibly be processed in the same way as that of a silkworm moth, to be woven into a cloth. A sloth moth cloth.
@u0421793 @TheBreadmonkey @blue @susiemagoo @TwoClownsEating
If that makes anyone angry, it's sloth moth cloth wrath.
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@u0421793 @TheBreadmonkey @blue @susiemagoo @TwoClownsEating Fun/ annoying fact not all moths spin cocoons. It depends on where they pupate. There's a lot that dig themselves underground so no spinning involved, just form a solid pupa case while stripping off their caterpillar skin.
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Sloths can be any colour they want in my book. Bring it in my lazy brother 🫂
You know I'm going to do maths on that claim, right?
@TheBreadmonkey I mean that’s not hard, the moon looks about the size of a 10p piece. Come on Australia, do better.
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Neither the moon nor birds are real, so everything is wider than that.