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If you were invisible, you would be blind because your eyes are lined with photoreceptors that reflect light, if your entire body were invisible, light would pass right through your eyes and leave the photoreceptors with nothing to work with, resulting in blindness.
 
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There's a traditional game in northern Germany called "Vor der Tür raten" (≈"Guessing behind the door").

The rules are as follows:
1) You need at least 3 participants that gather inside a room.
2) Every player downs one bottle of "Korn"-liquor.
3) One player leaves the room.
4) The other players have to guess which player left the room.
 
TheClorax said:
If you were invisible, you would be blind because your eyes are lined with photoreceptors that reflect light, if your entire body were invisible, light would pass right through your eyes and leave the photoreceptors with nothing to work with, resulting in blindness.
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So that's why the invisibility ring in Quake turned you into a pair of floating eyeballs.

Charles Bonaparte, the last living direct descendent of Napoleon, died in
1921 from injures he sustained after tripping over his dog.
 
The Bible actually mentioned the fact that chickens came before eggs, and the sun actually moved through out space thousands of years before scientists were able to confirm those facts.
 
Count groudon said:
The Bible actually mentioned the fact that chickens came before eggs, and the sun actually moved through out space thousands of years before scientists were able to confirm those facts.
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It also contains a story where Jesus wanders off a path to eat figs from a tree but upon approaching the tree, he realizes the tree doesn't have fruit, so he gets mad and curses the tree to remain barren.
 
A cat's fur can change due to the body temperature of the body beneath it, especially during summer. This can lead to a hilarious cat with a brown body (where the fur is thickest) but a grey head and tail where the fur is thinner.

Cinnamon is not only delicious, but the strong scent can be helpful in keeping insects away.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
It also contains a story where Jesus wanders off a path to eat figs from a tree but upon approaching the tree, he realizes the tree doesn't have fruit, so he gets mad and curses the tree to remain barren.
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That tree was a trap-ass ho to be fair.
 
The original abbreviation for the National Socialist Party was "Nasos". The term "Nazi" derives from a Bavarian word that means "simple-minded"
 
A crazy, Jaded Nazi officer with one eye and only 3 fingers named Claus Von Stauffenberg made an attempt to own Adolf Hitler epically by setting off bombs during one of his meetings. Unfortunately he had to wait a pretty long time to actually go through with the plan because Hitler kept rescheduling on him, and since he only had one hand with only a few fingers he was only able to arm one of the two bombs before the meeting started, and while he did succeed at rekking quite a few high profile Nazi party members, Hitler walked away with only a few scrapes and bruises because the massive conference table he was standing behind soaked up most of the blast.

This is probably pretty common knowledge, but I just really enjoy this story.
 
Before being changed to white, the spider symbol on Spider-Man’s Black Suit was going to be red.
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That would have been cool.
 
The word "cynic" derives from the Greek words for "dog" and "dog-like"
 
Ninja used to make their shuriken out of regular old nails, and they would bury them in animal shit for a few days before their missions to ensure that anyone who got cut by them would develope debilitating diseases.

Ninja were literally just a bunch of angry bumpkins that were very skilled at killing people with ridiculous things. Kinda weird how their image has evolved to make them into noble silent killing machines.
 
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The Wiemar Republic had both strong hate speech laws and a pro-gun ownership stance. Neither of these did anything to stop the rise of Hitler.
 
Apoth42 said:
The Wiemar Republic had both strong hate speech laws and a pro-gun ownership stance. Neither of these did anything to stop the rise of Hitler.
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What did he mean by this? :thinking:​
 
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