The Weird Knowledge Thread!

ChibaMasato

ChibaMasato

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krylani said:
Despite not being bears, koalas are also known as monkey bears, native bears, and tree bears, as well as their genus/family names meaning "pouch bear" in Greek.
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FaerieInCombatBoots

FaerieInCombatBoots

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-It used to be believed that witch could calm a storm by showing it her genitals. Apparently, the storm would be so ashamed that it would just move somewhere else. So, if you don't mind, I'm going to scare off this hurricane now...:D

-Anne Boleyn DID NOT have a sixth finger. This was a lie made up by her detractors. The guy who made it up had never even MET Anne.

-Anne Boleyn did however supposedly have an eating disorder. Reports say that during royal banquets she would have a lady-in-waiting hold out a bowl for her to puke in, while another lady held up a sheet to shield her from view.

-Henry's first wife Katherine of Aragon suffered from chronic vaginal infections, which may have been a reason her husband lost interest in her.
 
Mightythedj23

Mightythedj23

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Contrary to popular urban myths, Daddy Longlegs do not have any venom. at all. how the myth got started is beyond me.

The Sun is a near-perfect Sphere.

Alcohol is derived from the Arabic "al kohl" meaning "the essence"

Roulette was invented by Blaise Pascal, a french mathematician and Scientist.

Lemons have more Sugar than oranges.

a Duck's quack has no echo, and scientist are still baffled at this.
 
TheGurw

TheGurw

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thejackofalltrades said:
Contrary to popular urban myths, Daddy Longlegs do not have any venom. at all. how the myth got started is beyond me.

The Sun is a near-perfect Sphere.

Alcohol is derived from the Arabic "al kohl" meaning "the essence"

Roulette was invented by Blaise Pascal, a french mathematician and Scientist.

Lemons have more Sugar than oranges.

a Duck's quack has no echo, and scientist are still baffled at this.
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Duck quacks do echo.
 
krylani

krylani

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TheGurw said:
Duck quacks do echo.
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Jamie Hyneman said:
Quack, damn you!
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*ahem*

89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.
The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.
Edmund Hilary, the first person to climb Mt. Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.
According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.
The fact sphere is the most intelligent sphere.
 
TheGurw

TheGurw

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krylani said:
*ahem*

89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.
The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.
Edmund Hilary, the first person to climb Mt. Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.
According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.
The fact sphere is the most intelligent sphere.
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Yeah, the Mythbusters did prove that although a duck's quack does echo, because the waveforms are almost identical and line up nearly perfectly, a human is unlikely to be able to distinguish the echo from the quack.

But they aren't the only ones who did a study like that, a proper scientific study was actually carried out.
 
FaerieInCombatBoots

FaerieInCombatBoots

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-There are roughly 200 dead bodies on the slopes of Mt Everest. Many climbers die of exposure, and it is impossible to remove the remains. A lot of them have become landmarks.

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This one is known only as Green Boots and has been on the mountain since the late 1990's.

This is the least graphic of the many photos of the dead. If you want to see more, look it up.
 
TheGurw

TheGurw

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FaerieInCombatBoots said:
-There are roughly 200 dead bodies on the slopes of Mt Everest. Many climbers die of exposure, and it is impossible to remove the remains. A lot of them have become landmarks.

Green_Boots.png

This one is known only as Green Boots and has been on the mountain since the late 1990's.

This is the least graphic of the many photos of the dead. If you want to see more, look it up.
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Morbid, but cool.
 
oozinator

oozinator

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Wikipedia said:
The hamster zona-free ovum test (HZFO test), or hamster test is a method for diagnosing male infertility due to the inability of the sperm to penetrate the ova. This test has limited value for most people experiencing infertility.
In this test, [human] sperm are incubated with several hamster eggs. After seven to twenty hours, the number of sperm penetrations per egg is measured. The hamster eggs have had the zona pellucida, the outer membrane, removed- hence, zona-free....

The human sperm does not fertilize the hamster eggs, which are unable to grow or develop.
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I know that hamster eggs are a better choice than human eggs for this test for practical reasons.

Knowing this still doesn't completely get rid of the ick factor.
 
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