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Not to be outdone by India, rival superpower 2020, China announced their own toilet revolution in 2015 aiming to improve public toilets. Days after the announcement one person was killed and seven injured in a public toilet explosion.
 
-Cats get attached faster to pregnant women
-female cats help one another raise their children (as long as they're not rivals), forming something along a kitty daycare
-male cats adopt orphaned kittens and raise them as their own
-cat's kidneys are not made for dry food, and it can eventually cause obstructions
 
The oldest known bird in the wild is an albatross named Wisdom. She hatched around 1951 so she is around 69 today. Nice! In 1956 a tracking band was put on her and so far she has flown over 3 million miles.

Her species is monogamous; the male and female birds reunite during breeding season, where the female lays a single egg and they work together to raise it. Due to the energy expense of raising a child, most albatrosses only breed every 2 years but Wisdom and her mate have raised an offspring every year since 2006.
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Wisdom with an egg

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Akeakamai, her mate, guards a baby.
 
Azafran90 said:
-Cats get attached faster to pregnant women
-female cats help one another raise their children (as long as they're not rivals), forming something along a kitty daycare
-male cats adopt orphaned kittens and raise them as their own
-cat's kidneys are not made for dry food, and it can eventually cause obstructions
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On the flip side cats can drink salt water with no ill effects.
 
Squandog Bunglepuss said:
The oldest known bird in the wild is an albatross named Wisdom. She hatched around 1951 so she is around 69 today. Nice! In 1956 a tracking band was put on her and so far she has flown over 3 million miles.

Her species is monogamous; the male and female birds reunite during breeding season, where the female lays a single egg and they work together to raise it. Due to the energy expense of raising a child, most albatrosses only breed every 2 years but Wisdom and her mate have raised an offspring every year since 2006.
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Wisdom with an egg

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Akeakamai, her mate, guards a baby.
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The fact that the Albatross only lays and egg and the wide span of their reproduction cycle has made them an endangered species. If the egg gets broken or damaged, the couple will wait for 2 years to have new offspring, considerably lowering their reproduction chances. As well, it's rare for albatross (be male or female) to find a couple in case their original mate dies, which leads to some of them never being able to reproduce ever again.
 
During history, diabetis was constantly recorded in medical papers. So ancient that in 1.500 BC the egyptians had records of obese people that urinated in large amounts, being the earliest record of a patient with diabetis.

But in 1675, a physician of the name Thomas Willis from London was in charge of treating diabetic people and since records of the sickness were scarce, people believed the main solution to this mysterious sickness was to examine the urine of the affected. During his research, he had large amounts of urine and to his surprise, his dog was constantly drinking it. Out of curiosity, he tried too and he discovered that it tasted very sweet, giving it the name of Diabetes mellitus (this last part comes from latin and means honey taste).

But it wasn't until the early 20th century that it was discovered that insulin defficiency caused this.
 
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This picture shows the process of how some Japanese slangs come to be. It starts from the uppermost part, which is ホモビデオ (homo video/gay porn), then spread as meme on niconico douga and twitter. After that, people will use it in chat on LINE, and begin to used by JK (joshi kosei/high school girl) before used by mass media and ads. So the fun fact is, if you happen to know a Japanese slang, there's a chance that it came from gay porn.
 
Behold, the most powerful card in pre-2000 Pokemon Trading Card Game:

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No matter what, your deck is gimped if you do not have 4 of these.
 
PoyoSato said:
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This picture shows the process of how some Japanese slangs come to be. It starts from the uppermost part, which is ホモビデオ (homo video/gay porn), then spread as meme on niconico douga and twitter. After that, people will use it in chat on LINE, and begin to used by JK (joshi kosei/high school girl) before used by mass media and ads. So the fun fact is, if you happen to know a Japanese slang, there's a chance that it came from gay porn.
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Gay porn is surprisingly tame, considering that it is Japan.
 
If you were a man on Titanic, your chances of survival were already piss poor but there was just a slightly better chance of living if you were on the starboard side of the ship.

When the "women and children first" order came down, the two officers in charge of the lifeboats interpreted it differently. On the starboard side, First Officer Murdoch meant it literally and put them in first, then allow a couple of men in if there were still empty seats and/or if there was no women and children in the vicinity. On the port side, Second Officer Lightoller interpreted it as "women and children only" and did not allow any men to board. Later on, he did let one adult male passenger to get onboard and that was only because one lifeboat didn't have enough oarsmen in it.
 
The worst state to be a smoker as of 2020 is New York. A pack of cigarettes before taxes can cost up to 10.47 and after taxes it run an additional 1-5 dollars given how abysmal NY sales tax is. 4% plus the 8.875 increase in NYC proper. Meaning a carton of cigarettes can run up to it over 100 dollars.

Conversely in NJ, cigarettes run at most 8.75-10.00 a pack depending on brand and where you buy from. So a carton can cost up to 80 or so dollars. Our sales tax only being at most 3% State wide compared to NYs rate.
 
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