Fun facts!

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Mussolini was named after Benito Juárez, a Mexican lawyer, President, and (I think) revolutionary.

 

[Meat Target]

The deciding vote in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV was cast by Fr. Robert Sirico. He's the younger brother of Tony Sirico, the actor who played Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos.

 

[GAY DEAD MUPPET GANGBANG]

You know stupid facts like this for every aspect of life, except when you come to a forum topic to actually post one, then you can't actually think of just one.

 

[demicolon]

Daylight savings time came from WW1 rationing over a hundred years after Benjamin Franklin proposed it as a half-joke (according to AI).
Another thing that Woodrow Wilson inflicted on us.

IIRC it was Germans' idiotic obsession over "optimizing" everything, intended so bureaucrats could work a little longer in times where lightbulbs weren't commonplace yet. See: their extremely niche and overspecialized tank designs in WW II.

 

[AnOminous]

IIRC it was Germans' idiotic obsession over "optimizing" everything, intended so bureaucrats could work a little longer in times where lightbulbs weren't commonplace yet. See: their extremely niche and overspecialized tank designs in WW II.

DST is fucking retarded. Just get up earllier or later nigga, just wait for the sun to come up.

 

[demicolon]

DST is fucking retarded. Just get up earllier or later nigga, just wait for the sun to come up.

But Kaiiiser!
It has to be exactly at 8 o'clock!

 

[Positron]

The closest relative of the Kiwi is the recently-extinct Elephant Bird of Madagascar, and Kiwis are more closely related to the Emus and Cassowaries than to New Zealand’s Moa.

 

[McLean Deluxe]

Mussolini was named after Benito Juárez, a Mexican lawyer, President, and (I think) revolutionary.

You should watch "M. Il figlio del secolo". It's a biography/drama of Mussolini and that's the first fact he brings up.

 

[pink cupcake frosting]

You know stupid facts like this for every aspect of life, except when you come to a forum topic to actually post one, then you can't actually think of just one.

Fun fact: people who suck dicks and lick vaginas eat with cafeteria spoons, often soon after sucking dicks and licking vaginas.

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

Fun Fact: Baldwin IV beat Saladin with an army of 500 Knights against Saladin's army of 26,000 in just 3 hours.
and it took Saladin 10 years to rebuild his image and the trust and faith of his people.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Tyrannosaurus Rex could develop gout.

 

[Sirius]

During Desert Storm, the US Army used armored bulldozers to break the stalemate of what was essentially WW1-style trench warfare and buried hundreds of Iraqi soldiers alive during the process. US casualties were basically zero during that assault.

A lot of the ones used were Caterpillar D9s, which funnily enough are still being utilized by the IDF even today in Gaza.

 

[Meat Target]

Fun Fact: Baldwin IV beat Saladin with an army of 500 Knights against Saladin's army of 26,000 in just 3 hours.
and it took Saladin 10 years to rebuild his image and the trust and faith of his people.

The design for the Leper class in Darkest Dungeon was inspired by Baldwin IV (and in DD2, "Baldwin" is his default name).

 

[fist_of_khonshu]

Jumping Spiders often times have eyesight so good they'll chase laser pointers!

 

[Syntaxion]

The last ancient Egyptian temple, where priests worshipped Isis, wasn't closed until the middle ages.
Infact, the ancient Egyptian religion outlived the western Roman empire and was still practiced in a few areas south of Egypt by the time Islam came around.

This same temple also had the last known usage of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, a grafitti that was made around 20 years before the fall of w.Rome

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs actually are the origin of a big portion of writing scripts. From the Latin alphabet to the Brahmin alphabet and from Hebrew to Arabic, they all come from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Mostly through Phoenician.



Did you know that almost all of the earliest writings are numbers keeping, proof of sales, laws or other boring stuff? Rather than epic tales of mythology? The reason is that writing was needed, not to spread stories, which were already spread through speech, but to keep track of information and data that nobody can realistically remember. How many sheeps did your lord sell or buy this month? What is the law on accidental vandalism? How much did your market pay as taxes this year? Etc. etc.

it's also why the earliest known named humans, are often not even kings or rulers, but instead secretaries, bureaucrats and other pencil pushers.

The ancient Egyptian language is actually still "alive". ancient Egyptian got mixed with Greek , becoming the Coptic language which still exists today.

Speaking of languages, the Germanic languages were still similair enough during the early middle ages, so that when vikings first reached England, they could speak in their own language with the local kings, without either needing a translator.

 

[Nick Obre]

Speaking of languages, the Germanic languages were still similair enough during the early middle ages, so that when vikings first reached England, they could speak in their own language with the local kings, without either needing a translator.

On that note, Germany in Polish is Niemcy, and in Croatian Njemačka, meaning "The mute people", because German is not mutually intelligible with Slavic languages, so they couldn't communicate.

Germany has many names in different languages.

In German, it's Deutschland, the Land of the People. In English, it's Germany, and in Italian Germania, after the Latin Germania. In languages like French it's Allemagne, and in Spanish it's Alemania, after the Alamanni tribe. In Finnish it's Saksa, after the Saxon tribe. In Luxembourgish it's Preixen, and in Limburgish it's Pruses, after Prussia.

Many other variations in all those groups exist.

Similarly, Japan calls itself Nippon. But when Marco Polo reached China, he asked about that island, and they told him the name. Due to the phonetic differences between Japanese and Chinese, the name was pronounced in a way that what he heard was "Zipangu". So he sends word back to Italy, and probably because of the Italian accent, somehow what Italy gets out of it is Giappone, which eventually turns into Japan.

 

[Krystal]

Accents and dialects in the Americas are examples of languages being 'frozen in time'. This is mainly due to colonization and being isolated from their motherlands. This is why grammar and words in some countries in the Americas are Archaic and outdated in comparison to Europe or other countries colonized later on. Similarly, many accents and languages spoken and in the Americas are the dialects that are most similar to the regions that did most of the colonizing. For example, many Spanish speaking countries are most similar to either Andalusian or the Canary Islands. Pennsylvania Dutch, or rather Deutsch, comes from Germany's Palatinate region.

 

[Ice Mountain]

Japan has a ton of roadside stations scattered all over the country called Michi no Eki. They (along with the highway tolls lol) are meant to encourage people to take the longer routes when traveling, and therefore promote local tourism and inject a bit of cash into the local economy because pretty much all of them sell local specialties and/or handmade goods.

A certain prefecture to the north takes its Michi no Eki to a whole new level, though. Hokkaido's geography is pretty different from the mainland, and as a result, its industries are a bit unique. Like milk. Hokkaido is well-known for its milk. And you know what you can make with milk that's easy to distribute and is popular with all sorts of people? Soft serve. Not every Michi no Eki in Hokkaido has soft serve, but like 95% do, and some of them can get pretty funky with the flavors. How funky, you ask?

Here is a small selection of examples: pumpkin in Wassamu, pumpkin and scallop (as in, regular soft serve plus a raw scallop squished into it) in Saroma, broccoli in Chippubetsu, ramune in Mashu, lingonberry in Shari, carrot and grape in Urausu, green pepper in Niikappu, watermelon in Touma, black sesame in Engaru, and so on. Most of these flavors are made with the local specialty produce, and some of the more wtf-sounding ones are actually quite tasty.

 

[General Patton]

You can get "sand" and "crusts" in your eyes because there are microscopic mites that live in your hair follicles and eyelids.

They spend most of their time tucked inside the pores, but while people sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.

Enjoy your sleep tonight, guys.

 

[AnOminous]

You can get "sand" and "crusts" in your eyes because there are microscopic mites that live in your hair follicles and eyelids.


Enjoy your sleep tonight, guys.

You wouldn't necessarily want to get rid of them. There's currently an argument about whether their relationship with humans is parasitic, mutualistic, or actually symbiotic. They appear to eat a bunch of crap that messes up your eyes and only get out of hand if there's something else wrong with you.

I will sleep easily knowing I have entire civilizations of critters inside me. I mean unless I wake up with crusty crap on my eyes, then I'll be pissed.

Consider them the twin cities of pets and friends that live in your eyes.