Fun facts!

[Forever Train Engineer]

Sophomore means "wise fool" in Greek, referring to teens thinking irrationality despite being rational

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Dollar Store items were tested and 81 percent of their products contain harmful materials that cause Cancer and other serious health problems.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...xic-items-dollar-stores-make-family-SICK.html

 

[AnOminous]

Dollar Store items were tested and 81 percent of their products contain harmful materials that cause Cancer and other serious health problems.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...xic-items-dollar-stores-make-family-SICK.html

I'm not impressed by that Daily Fail article. It says absolutely nothing about how they compare with the same items bought elsewhere. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the items purchased at whatever hoity-toity stores these dipshits who did that study shop at were just as toxic.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I'm not impressed by that Daily Fail article. It says absolutely nothing about how they compare with the same items bought elsewhere. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the items purchased at whatever hoity-toity stores these dipshits who did that study shop at were just as toxic.

Based on other information I saw they make it seem like most of the items from China- or at least a large number of them- are dangerous. It all links back to Asia. Edit: One Dollar Store company had to recall half a million toys because they were toxic.

 

[Sundae]

And now you know.

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

Under certain conditions Neurons can actually divide and reproduce, however it is slow and therefore many scientists believed they couldn't replicate after maturing.

Also, muscle cells were other cell group that was believed couldn't replicate, it was found some cells within the sheath that envelopes each muscle there are cells capable of diferentiation and replication.

 

[Positron]

Fun fact: every positive integer can be written as the sum of 4 square numbers (0 and 1 are square numbers).

With cubic numbers, things are a little bit complicated. Strictly speaking, all positive integers can be written as the sum of 9 (non-negative) cubic numbers, but the only integers that require 9 cubic numbers are 23 (2³+2³+1³+1³+1³+1³+1³+1³+1³) and 239 (4³+4³+3³+3³+3³+3³+1³+1³+1³), and very few require 8 cubic numbers, the largest known is 454. It has long been postulated that every integer larger than 454 can be written as the sum of 7 non-negative cubics. A group at the University of Warwick has forwarded a proof in 2015, but since their proof rely on computation, it is still considered provisional.

 

[GV 998]

Sit down, children. Let me tell you the tale of Grando, The Vampire

Jure Grando

Jure Grando, born 1579, died 1656 was a man who lived in a small village of Kringa, in Istria (now known as Croatia). What is special about Jure Grando? Well, he is quite possibly the first actual person in history who was believed to be a vampire.

Local Legend states that after his death, Jure would rise from his grave each night and terrorize the village. And this went on for 16 years until some of the villagers were able to summon the courage to confront him in his grave and decapitate him.

The legends state that Jure would wander the town at night and knock on people's doors. If he knocked on someone's door, they would supposedly die a few days later. His widow also claimed that he would visit her at night and sexually assault her.

A local priest named Father Giorgio once encountered him and was able to repel him with the image of Jesus on the cross.

Apparently at some point BEFORE they thought to decapitate him, nine brave villagers went to the cemetary and dug up his grave. They found him in his coffin with a smile on his face, and they attempted to pierce his heart with a stick made of hawthorn wood, but were unable to penetrate the chest.

His reign of terror ended when they finally decided to just decapitate him.

In today's Kringa, the people of the village have embraced the vampire folklore of Jure Grando, and even opened a vampire-themed tavern to attract tourists.

I just wonder how the townspeople put up with this for 16 years. What did they do if someone came to visit the village?:


Tourist: uhhh...hey guys...did you see that rotting corpse just claw it's way out of it's coffin?!

Villager: Oh, yeah. That's just old Grando. He comes out of his grave every night to play pranks on us and fuck his wife. He's alright.

Tourist: .....okay?

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Fun fact: I'm awesome.

For real though:
One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Decapitating an insect (like a wasp) isn't lethal to them. Usually, after having their head cut off, they die by starvation.

 

[DrJonesHat]

During the Depression, the US had its very own fascist party modeled after the Nazi party. It was called the Union Party for Social Justice (it meant something different back then), usually just shortened to the Union Party. It was founded and run by William Dudley Pelley. It had its own paramilitary arm, called the Silver Shirts, similar to Hilter's brownshirts. It gained some traction at the beginning of the Great Depression, but then the economy recovered and the Depression ended, and people weren't drawn to radical movements in large numbers like they are in times of desperation. Pelley was arrested and charged with sedition, and did some time, but died a free man, but mostly forgotten.

 

[UnKillFill]

It was called the Union Party for Social Justice (it meant something different back then)

Sounds like it meant exactly the same thing back then tbh.

 

[jebsurge]

The longest piece of literature ever created is a Super Smash Brothers Brawl fanfiction.

 

[Milk Mage]

The first causality of the Allied bombing of Berlin during WW2 was an elephant

 

[Count groudon]

Some ancient Egyptians had naturally blonde or red hair, despite the fact that people hailing from lands with that climate typically having dark skin and hair. King Ramesses II himself was a ginger.

 

[CressAlbane]

The Pokémon Diglett is able to move at the speed of light.

 

[Curt Sibling]

Genghis Khan had violet/blue eyes. Considered a sign of divinity among his people.
More likely a sign of Western ancestry, from the many missionary Monks who previously traveled to Mongolia.

 

[DrJonesHat]

During the 1910s, the Socialist Party was hugely popular in what is now flyover country. Oklahoma actually had a socialist uprising, but it was basically a bunch of guys who got wasted on moonshine and decided to overthrow the government. It did not go well for them. Protip: If you're going to plan an insurgency, do so while sober. You may write your manifesto while hammered (it worked for Karl Marx), but do the actual planning with a clear head.
It was called the Green Corn rebellion, and it occurred on August 2-3, 1917. It was in response to the draft for WWI.

EDIT: Got the decade wrong.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Electric eels aren't fucking eels.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Worlds shortest poem:
This poem was written by Aram Saroyan, an Armenian-American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. Saroyan's four-legged “m” has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest poem.