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Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
Enough of sad shit: I'm not sure if someone already mentioned it, but in WWII, the Polish army had a Syrian Brown Bear that was smart and friendly enough to load mortars, because he was rescued as a cub.
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Bears are really smart, maybe the most intelligent (nonhuman) animals native to North America. They even use tools and weapons, like killing seals by beating them with objects.

Vonk, whose focus is comparative cognition, has conducted studies using touch screens with bears, great apes (orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas) and ring-tailed lemurs. “Bears were the fastest to learn the association between their responses and rewards,” she says, “probably because they’re so motivated by food.”
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https://guideposts.org/positive-liv...hy-these-animals-use-touch-screen-technology/ (there are other sources for this besides this site though).

Bears are our friends. Well, maybe not grizzlies but even they usually won't kill you unless you go all Timothy Treadwell. And even he got away with it for years and was only killed by a social outcast bear that was probably a psycho even by grizzly standards.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Lincoln was rather tall, had huge hands, and yet talked in a high-pitched voice.

Also he was a permissive "cool dad", because his dad was not exactly a good dad.
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Abraham Lincoln had a lopsided head because he was kicked in the head by a mule as a child.
 
Abraham Lincoln was a good old man. He hopped out the window with his dick in his hand...said "excuse me lady, I'm doing my duty, so pull down your pants and give me some booty."
 
In Iowa there is a Gas station chain called Kum & Go

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Sadly due to a corporate buyout they are changing it's name.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
In Iowa there is a Gas station chain called Kum & Go

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Sadly due to a corporate buyout they are changing it's name.
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Kum & Go’s are great, and have a consistently high level of cleanliness and quality. 7-Eleven niggers just wouldn’t understand (but Wawa chads may feel it’s a step backwards).

After moving to the east coast, I worked with a guy who stopped in at one while driving through the Midwest. He was so absolutely tickled by the name he bought a shirt and two hats (I guess I’ll have to have one send some out). When you live there, you really don’t think about the name at all.
 
Jaimas said:
Texas law forbids anyone to have a pair of pliers in his possession without a permit.
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A lot of these bizarre blue laws actually had some real purpose a long time ago. For the pliers law, I believe the actual origin of the law was because of thieves who would steal or dismantle barbed wire from cattle farms. Another similar law is how American southern states have laws against sitting backwards whilst riding a horse: this stems from frontier days when horse thieves would ride backwards. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's why those laws existed.
 
Catfishes have taste buds all over their bodies, and all their taste buds are innervated by the Facial Nerve (Cranial Nerve No. 7)
 
The Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are the same range. They were once connected by Pangea.
 
AnOminous said:
Bears are really smart, maybe the most intelligent (nonhuman) animals native to North America. They even use tools and weapons, like killing seals by beating them with objects.


https://guideposts.org/positive-liv...hy-these-animals-use-touch-screen-technology/ (there are other sources for this besides this site though).

Bears are our friends. Well, maybe not grizzlies but even they usually won't kill you unless you go all Timothy Treadwell. And even he got away with it for years and was only killed by a social outcast bear that was probably a psycho even by grizzly standards.
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On the topic of bears here is something I learned recently.

Some of us might know that there is a linguistic link between the languages of Europe and the languages of Persia and India. These languages can be traced back to a progenitor language known as Proto-Indo-European. Despite this language never being written down we have a fairly good idea of the language based on the combined autism of linguists from the late 1700’s onwards.

Anyways, it turns out that the word “bear” comes from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “brown one”, and “medved” the Russian word for bear comes from a word meaning “honey eater”.

As you may have noticed these two words have roots that are different from one another and sound more like vague descriptors. This is because both of the PIE root words were not the actual PIE word for bear but were instead euphemisms used to refer to bears, likely because bears had a sort of sacred/feared status among the PIE so it was taboo to say their true name, like an ancient version of Beetlejuice or something. This feature isn’t present in all PIE languages however, as “ursus”, the Latin word for bear is derived from the true word for bear. Interestingly it appears that this taboo was kept in areas in the north where bears were more common, and disregarded in areas where bears were less common.

The Proto-Indo-European word for bear is “h₂ŕ̥tḱos” (no clue how to pronounce it).
 
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Bumble bees in away when presented with a pathway that had loose balls versus one that was faster chose to go into the pathway with the balls. Not only that but they would return to that pathway and play with the balls. This indicates that bees can actually play, which is insanely cute

Fun fact: I am going to behead the creator of the webp image format :)
 
Thermodynamics time!

Most know that dark colors are conductive to heat (they heat up faster and hotter when exposed to light) and light colors are insulative (they heat up slower and less).

What many don't know is that this conduction and insulation is actually two-way - dark colors cool off much faster, whereas light colors take much longer to cool down.
 
Meat Target said:
The Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are the same range. They were once connected by Pangea.
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This is an especially interesting when you consider a large amount the Europeans that settled were of Irish or Scottish descent. A book I read pondered this may be why "[they] felt so at home [t]here: they really just moved from one end of this mountain range to the other." It's a thought that really stuck with me.
 
Moral Decay said:
This is an especially interesting when you consider a large amount the Europeans that settled were of Irish or Scottish descent. A book I read pondered this may be why "[they] felt so at home [t]here: they really just moved from one end of this mountain range to the other." It's a thought that really stuck with me.
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It's definitely a connection. But I'd guess that it's more because the Scots-Irish were poorer than the Anglo-Saxon landed gentry on the East Coast, and took to (what was at the time) less desirable frontier lands.
 
There is a chemical called "Chlorine Trifluoride" which is one of the scarier known substances with any industrial use at all. It is a violent oxidizer that will spontaneously combust in contact with most common substances, even including things like concrete, glass and fucking asbestos. If you try to put the resulting fire out with water, it'll explode violently into clouds of hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acid gas.
WWII Germany produced the stuff and planned on using it as a combined chemical/incendiary weapon, but never got around to it. Presumably they never would have even if they'd went full retard with other chemical weapons, because storing and handling shells where only a molecule-scale layer of metal fluoride separates you (and other shells) from explosive poison acid is a bad idea.
 
Seafarer said:
Some of us might know that there is a linguistic link between the languages of Europe and the languages of Persia and India. These languages can be traced back to a progenitor language known as Proto-Indo-European. Despite this language never being written down we have a fairly good idea of the language based on the combined autism of linguists from the late 1700’s onwards.
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Fun fact: one of those autists would be Noam Chomsky. Think what you might like about his politics, he knew language very very well. Seriously, look at Manufacturing Consent. Then look how globohomo is doing exactly that. Chomsky may not have realized it, but he very well described what the regressive left is currently doing.

But he was only one of hundreds who can tell us what a language looked like that has been spoken by no living person in millennia, before writing existed, just by examining what evidence we do have.

You get shit like this:
h₂ŕ̥tḱos
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Because while we might know the basics of the word, we really can't know how people pronounced it.
skjora said:
There is a chemical called "Chlorine Trifluoride" which is one of the scarier known substances with any industrial use at all.
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The most deadly neurotoxin anyone might encounter is dimethylmercury. Even exposure to absolutely minute amounts, measured in the microliters, even when wearing latex gloves, lead to an inevitable, horrifying, and lingering death that can last months, and involves slow devolution into dementia and insanity.

Here is a story of a chemistry professor (incidentally an internationally recognized expert specifically on heavy metal poisoning) who died horribly months after exposure: https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/dimethylmercury/dmmh.htm

Apparently, since I just looked it up and found it on a forum search, apparently someone on this site would have known there's an even more evil organometallic compound:

It does what dimethylmercury does plus also goes apeshit on contact with air. Yay!
 
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When Fireflies take flight in the mid to late summer, their flashing isn't just for cosmetic effect; they are effectively advertising themselves on Firefly tinder. Females who are interested respond with flashes of their own (females can't fly), and eventually the males will triangulate using the flashes and land to mate with them. Individual species have different colors and different patterns of flashes. One particular species of Firefly in the US doesn't light up at all.

Because Fireflies tend to hatch and emerge and molt at around the same times seasonally, there are specific times when the mating flights begin where fireflies are especially easy to find, and the woods are often full of beautiful, yellow-green lights, even as far as New York. However, while it is beautiful, it is also deadly serious for these bugs - not only are predators everywhere hoping to make a meal of them as they shine their species morse-code equivalent of HEY WANT SUM FUK? but there are also predator Firefly species who will copy the signal of other species in order to lure them in and eat them!

The insect world is fucking hardcore.
 
neon green got associated with radiation because uranium glass fluorescence and radium glow-in-the-dark paint

but a more direct color of radiation is Cherenkov blue

(the latter was used with Dr. Manhattan in the "Watchmen" series)
 
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