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AnOminous said:
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.
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That's good to know. It always weirded me out the thought of all the bugs that could live on you that you never see. It also reminds me that the scariest movie I ever saw wasn't a horror movie, but a documentary about all the bugs you have that live in your house.

Anyway, at least that has a positive spin on it. The real scariest fact that I'll never forget is the amount of pubic hairs that end up in fast food.
 
Fun Fact: group of Rats will have a “lead”/“head” Rat. This doesn’t necessarily mean the most dominant or the biggest, sometimes the “head” of the group will be extremely neutering and gentle with younger members of their groups

In rare situations (mostly in domestic settings) there may also be multiple lead rats. In the wild this is more uncommon than in captivity though due to how nature does function on competition to survive.

(I rescue Rodents and other “exotics”. I have had 2 half wild rats, numerous fancy rats and 2 full wild rats. The latter two obviously wasn’t intentional but unfortunately they were born in captivity and separated from Mom at a very very young age and don’t have the skills for the wild. I have also rehabbed wild rodents back into the wild)
 
AnOminous said:
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.
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Getting the crust out of my eyes in the morning is an orgasmic feeling and I thank the mites for giving me this small pleasure.
 
BlueMoonstone said:
Fun Fact: group of Rats will have a “lead”/“head” Rat. This doesn’t necessarily mean the most dominant or the biggest, sometimes the “head” of the group will be extremely neutering and gentle with younger members of their groups
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Fun fact: If you're a hardcore enough rat to neuter the youth, you're going to gain quite the following through pure fear. It's a shortsighted strategy, though...
 
Back with another fun (or not so fun) Rat Fact

Rats will mourn over the members of their pack. It is dependent on the rat themselves and how good the bond was with the past Rat though.

Rat groups following the loss of one or more members will often have Rats who will take more time to themselves and hang around areas still with the Passed Rats scent on.

Another fact is that Rats (mostly seen in wild groups) will actually eat the body of the passed on Rat. Some view this as them not caring and only be focused on food but they actually have a instinct to do
So when one Rat passes as in the wild the scent could attract predators.
 
Dolomite is a common mineral with a simple chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂, yet for 200 years scientists have not be able to synthesize it in the labs; most attempts just yielded a mixture of Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Carbonate. It was only in 2023 that scientists, through computational studies, figured out how it was formed in nature and to verify the process.
 
The element Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey, who was at that time training at Marie Curie's institute and had not yet received her undergraduate degree. She originally intended to name the element "Catium" because, as the bottom-most member of Group I, it is expected to form the largest cation so far known (indeed it is the largest atom known). The name was vetoed by one of her supervisors, the daughter of Marie Curie, because English speakers would snicker at the name "Catium". So in the end she named it in honor of France.

Francium is the second element named after France: the first is Gallium, discovered by Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Yet there is a suspicion that Lecoq actually named the element after himself ("Coq" in French = "Gallus" in Latin).

There was almost a third element that bears a reference to France. Georges Urbain, a French chemist specialized in rare earths, thought he isolated the element now known as Hafnium. He proposed the name "Celtium", in honor of Brittany, the Celtic region in France. Unfortunately Urbain's claim was spurious, because I like the name Celtium myself.
 
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Meitnerium (Element 109) is so far the only element name after a real-life woman, nuclear physicist Lise Meitner. People tend to think Curium was named after Marie Curie, but in fact the name was given in honor to the husband-wife team. Vanadium was named after a goddess.
 
Thanks to advances in chess engines, the last World Correspondance* Chess Championship was completely drawn and between the 17 participants, 10 became Correspondance Champions. Now you may wonder, why 10 and not the whole 17? Because one of the players fucking died in the middle of the tournament thus giving free wins to his remaining opponents.


* It's no longer played by sending letters but instead by submitting moves on ICCFs server.
 
The song "Layla" by Eric Clapton released in 1970 was about his friend's wife, Pattie Boyd, who Clapton was secretly in love with at the time. The friend was musical partner George Harrison.

Clapton and Boyd got married in 1979 after Harrison and Boyd divorced.

So not only did Clapton cuck one of his best friends, he wrote a song about cucking him that ended up one of the best rock songs of all time.

So which was more humiliating?
 
Eto said:
There’s a personality test called the Szondi test, where it supposedly shows the dark aspect of your personality. How it’s measured? In the 1930s, Lèopold Szondi used mental patients as vectors for this test, showing people the patients and asking which one makes them the least comfortable. Whichever one you picked would reveal the dark aspect of your personality.
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Give it a try, if you must.
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(Very late but going through thread) There just something that feels very wrong with #1
 
On exoplanet HD 189733 b, about 64 light-years away, scientists believe winds can exceed 5,000 mph. Atmospheric modeling and spectroscopic data indicate silicate particles condense into droplets, effectively molten glass rain, driven horizontally by the winds.
 
Fun Fact: Sticking a fork in the electrical outlet will give you super powers.
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