Diamonds aren't stable and will eventually, over billions of years, decompose from their cubic molecular structure to carbon's more stable form, graphite, which has a hexagonal molecular structure.
Oh, here's another good gemstone related one!
Amethyst and citrine are both quartz varieties, and if the color source happens to be from traces of iron in the crystal lattice, one can be turned into the other. Heating amethyst can make citrine, and irradiating citrine can turn it into amethyst. This is because the only actual difference between the two is the valiance level of a specific election in the iron atom giving the stone its color.
Bedsheet thread counts have been artificially inflated for years by the shifty linen companies counting individual fibers that the threads consist of as threads themselves. It’s become a meaningless number, since there is zero regulation. If you want a nice thick heavy cloth, GSM is the number you want, but most companies won’t share this (looking at you, The Company Store) because they obviously don’t want you to know how thin and flimsy their products really are before you buy them.
I misstated the definition a bit, although in real world terms a higher GSM does often manifest as a thicker cloth. GSM stands for grams per square meter. It measures how much fabric weighs in a given area. It is a weight rating, not a thickness rating.
Higher GSM means denser, heavier fabric. Lower GSM means lighter, more breathable fabric.
You know how geese fly in a “v” shaped pattern in the sky? One side of the “v” is usually longer than the other. The reason for that is that there’s more geese on that side.
They do it for efficiency, like ducklings after their mother.
Have you ever seen a large boat from above? The wake spreads out behind it, in this v-shape. It's like a wave following the boat, and the ducklings can "surf" on the v-shaped wave, after their mother, and they don't have to paddle as hard.
Several popular graphing calculators from Texas Instruments, including the TI-83 and TI-84, have a display resolution of 96*64, but only 95*63 pixels are used for graphing.
However, the earlier TI-81 did use all 96*64 pixels. The rationale for this change was to establish a central row and column for the axes and a central pixel for the origin. The cursor could only move pixel-by-pixel, and since the axes and origin would end up "between" pixels on the TI-81, they were inaccessible by the cursor.
The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.
But I'll give you one of my favourite obscure-ish fact instead: baby sloths are so inept, they sometimes mistake their own limbs for tree branches, grab hold of them with one limb, let go of the actual branch, and fall out of the tree
I was about to say that it's usually the right paw I see my cat slowly inching towards my face to slap me for not getting food ready yet while I pretend to be asleep but then realized that you specified male and that she is not.
If you catch a frog in between your hands and quickly flip it around, you can get the frog into a kind of paralyzed state called 'tonic immobility'.
Here is a photo from Wikipedia:
OK, well, many years ago I was very interested in this phenomenon and decided to look into the literature.
I found a paper from 1928 titled "On The Mechanism of Tonic Immobility in Vertebrates" written by Hudson Hoagland (PDF link).
In this paper, the author describes contraptions he used to analyze the small movement (or lack of movement) in animals while in this state. They look kind of like torture devices:
OK, but, that's still not it.... The obscure fact is found in the first footnote of that paper, on page #2:
Apparently this or a similar effect can be observed in humans too?! In this paper, the author himself claims to have done this and that it works! I tried to locate more recent resources describing this phenomenon in humans but I could not find them... Is this actually possible? If so, why is this not better documented? Or, maybe it is better documented but understood as a different type of reflex today? Not sure.
If you have a video with the 180 degree flip I would really like to see it. This context seems like a plausible place to see such a move in modern days. I would imagine that in some martial arts this effect would be well known.
That reminds me of a "game" kids would (try) to play when I was young at school. The kids would say to do just that "bend over, take a deep breath" and the other one would try to lift them up really quickly. I never saw it work. I guess you were supposed to pass out. Idk
Some of these 'games' do trigger real physiological mechanisms. A well-documented example is the Valsalva maneuver, where forcefully exhaling against a closed mouth and nose affects heart rate and blood pressure.
In some games, this maneuver (or similar) is combined with a second action that normally increases blood flow demand to the brain. The mismatch between reduced blood pressure and sudden demand can cause dizziness or brief loss of consciousness due to insufficient oxygen reaching the brain.
Actually, there is a similar effect sometimes seen during heavy deadlifts, suddenly releasing can sometimes make people pass out. There are many “deadlift passing out” videos online.
So, those 'games' can work. I have known of kids breaking their teeth after face-planting against the floor while playing those games. Not a very smart thing to do.
I'm glad nothing went awry. I was always skeptical about it because no one figured it out. It's crazy what we do especially as kids with our innocent bliss
...honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as "obscure".
::: spoiler so, bonus:
the siljan area of sweden has a history of building observation towers:
the tower in the black-and-white photo, which started this trend, was financed by a man who made a fortune making and selling multiplication books. basically like books of logarithm tables but only for multiplication. 1×1 to 9999×9999.
also that entire area is europe's largest meteorite crater:
Chinese scientists worked to create the "humanzee," a human-chimpanzee hybrid in the '60s. Female chimpanzees were impregnated with human sperm. The experiment was cut short by the Cultural Revolution - the scientists were sent to labor camps and a three-months pregnant chimpanzee died of neglect. The Soviets attempted a similar program in the '20s.
Seriously find a source. a three month pregnant chimpanzee, pregnant with a humanzee, died of neglect? Sure, Humanzee experiments were attempted but because of how biology works, two species as different as a chimpanzee and a human cannot make children.
Peking (KNT) -Chinese at one time experimented with fertilizing a chimpanzee with human sperm in an attempt to create a "near -human ape," and they may try it again. The chimp was three months pregnant before the first experiment was halted, one of the original researchers claims. Western science long has scoffed at such an experiment as medically impossible, but Dr. Ji Yongxiang says the research, if it ever resumes, has the potential to develop creatures with higher animal intelligence who could speak and perform simple tasks. A second researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science said there were plans to resume testing.
A lot of people know of the April Fools 418 I’m a Teapot error code, but did you know there’s a full Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol from the same RFC for running a coffee pot server? It even includes an HTCPCP method named “WHEN” to let the pot know it has poured enough cream.
Also, the word doublespeak isn't from Orwell. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he used the term Newspeak, meaning a sort of clipped form of language designed to limit expression of thought, and doublethink, the practice of holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time and believing both to be true, but he never used the word doublespeak.
Interestingly though, it actually predates Nineteen Eighty-Four, but nobody really knows who coined it exactly.
Newspeak was inspired by Esperanto, because George Orwell had an annoying Esperantist roommate. "bad" in Esperanto is "malbone," literally "un-good." "terrible" in Esperanto is "malbonege," literally "very ungood."
Also Esperanto at the time was hoped to be the universal second language of the working class. That did not mean esperantists were any less annoying then though
Living at high altitude for long periods of time can cause a disease that is otherwise most associated with cocaine and meth.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension has some weird causes, but it seems that high altitude and having to work for enough oxygen can cause the body to revolt.
The earliest know pyramids date back to around 2600BCE, and Cleopatra reigned around 50-30BCE, so her reign is closer to the modern day than to the first pyramids by about 600 years. One of the earliest surviving pyramids, Djoser, was built by Imhotep (with help, I assume) during a period called the Third Egyptian Dynasty meaning, as it's name suggests, the unified Kingdom of Egypt was already well-established by the time it was built. The First Dynasty started about 3100BCE so even ignoring the proto-Dynasty period of Egypt, that's pretty humbling: if you drew a timeline with the founding of Ancient Egypt on the left and the founding of OnlyFans to the right, Cleopatra would be three-fifths of the way along it.
One of my favorite facts is that while the first pyramids were being built, there were still Mammoth roaming some northern European regions (never checked whether this is true or not but I've heard it so many times that I want to believe it is true)
When a drug company in the 80s scaled up production they accidentally created seed crystals that spread around the entire Earth's atmosphere that prevented other companies from manufacturing a generic drug without it attaching to the seeds and converting to the patented drug.
And it's merely a hypothesis, there is no proof. Also we can assume that chemical plants are aware and have taken precautions, but it still happens. Back in the day it was speculated that chemists caried microcrystals around in their beards. This problem has been around for a while. One of the coolest hypothesis has been put forward by Rupert Sheldrake. He thinks that there is something in nature akin to memory. A force of nature as you will.
The tiniest park in the USA is located on a city street corner in Portland, Oregon. Mill Ends Park
Edit: I fell down a rabbit hole. Corrected myself having posted it originally as “world’s smallest park” which is how I knew it - apparently it carried that distinction until Feb this year when a tiny space on a Japanese street (which was created in 1988) formally applied for, and was awarded the Guinness book of records title of World’s Smallest Park.
Also this one just popped into my head - the Guinness Book of Records was originally conceived as a means of settling arguments by compiling factual “records”. The original argument related to a shooting trip in England in which the Managing Director of Guinness Breweries partook, where a missed shot led to a disagreement about the fastest game bird. The realisation that arguments such as this would be commonplace, and that no resource existed to settle such matters - the niche for capturing these types of facts was identified and the book was born.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray weren't the only HD video disc formats competing for dominance in the '00s. HD VMD which was basically a DVD containing more layers unsuccessfully tried to compete with the two. The company who produced it dissolved in 2008 and only a few titles were ever released on the format.
There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.
I cannot find anything about a tape format called "LP-2000" that came out in 1970.
Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren't nearly as successful as Sony's Betamax format which lost the format war to...
VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita...and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.
The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it's U-Matic.
The entomology book Life on a Little Known Planet taught me that bebugs mate via "traumatic insemination". The female has no opening, so the male pierces the exoskeleton and the wound later heals over -- all of which allows entomologoists to count the number of times a female has mated by the number of scars on their abdomen.
Much as a 12oz steak won’t weigh exactly twelve ounces when served to you after cooking them a 2x4 piece of wood was nominally that measurement prior to the kiln drying process.
It’s more that they used to be shipped 2x4 unfinished, and would be planed smooth on site. Once the equipment and distribution was able to do the planing before it got to the customer, they had so much established practice that the installed timber would be smaller, they had to keep to what people were used to.
The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with...whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.
When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.
The Latin meaning of the color ultramarine is "over the sea" Also, they once made a pigment called mummy, which was literally made out of finely grinded mummy.
There is a dust layer in the ice at the South Pole about 2km under the surface that interferes with about 5000 photomultiplier tubes spread out over a cubic kilometer in the ice that are watching for light created from high energy muons moving faster than the speed of light in the ice that were in turn the result of the very rare chance of a high energy neutrino interacting with the nucleus of a single atom in the ice.
Just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly: Faster than the speed of light, within the medium, right? So the neutrinos are a bit like Cherenkov radiation. But not actually faster than the speed of light, since if that was happening, my world view was just revised rather abruptly :)
You're correct! It is Cherenkov Radiation; specifically from the muon (or electron or tau) that is a result of the neutrino interacting with the nucleus of an atom because Cherenkov Radiation happens with charged particles.
A large amount of visual inspections on the inside of nuclear reactors is done literally with a camera duct taped to either a really really long pole assembled in sections or a rope. Operators "swim" the cameras to various locations and camera handling is basically an occupation in that field. You also need camera shots for any work being done on the inside of the flooded reactor with, again, really really long poles that end up acting more like pool noodles at such a length. It is silly and difficult work. Also you basically are wearing a trash bag sitting above a hot tub while doing this work. So it is a wild experience.
Not that obscure, but
most orange cats are male since the orange gene is tied to the x-chromosom, so male cats only need one copy to appear orange. Female cats have to have the orange gene on both x-chromosom to be fully orange.
And usually only female cats can be calico/tortoise since the orange gene is co-dominant, so if they only have one copy of the orange gene both the orange and black will be visible.
A seemingly male calico/tortoise cat is usually intersex and sterile.
We just had a follow up meeting here and decided the previous findings were incorrect and that you do exist. I don't know if this is a relief to you or not.
Most military simulation databases have a classified and unclassified version. In the unclassified database a spefic russian apc is usually set to be indestructable.
It's used for a quick test when setting up a federated sim. Drop one in the sim and trigger a detonation at the location. It should either be destroyed or not in all the instances.
So military simulation for actual militaries is used for training. There are programs like OneSAF a training and stimulation RTS or VBS2 a first person shooter.
They can all be networked together using a federated system. Similar to Lemmy there is no master instance. Each program is trusted and manages it's entities like tanks and soldiers.
They each have their own database that can be classified or not. The classified database has very accurate stats and the nonclassified has general simple stats. Think people leaking classified documents on War Thunder to get their tank better stats in the game.
Because each system is using it's own database you don't want some system using classified data and some not. So in the unclassified databases a spefic unit type is set to invulnerable.
So if it's supposed to be an unclassified stimulation you fire up the sims and create one of the special units. You then trigger a detonation like an airstrike at the location of the unit.
The unit should be fine as it's invulnerable. You then go and check each stimulation and if it's been destroyed that one is using a classified database and you need to change it out before letting people use the system.
The origin of the name 'Amerigo' Vespucci is 'Emmerich' in German. So the namesake of a contintent is a very demure provincial city close to the German/Dutch border.
The word "America" does not come from Amerigo Vespucci, but is likely an amalgamation of
the Mayan word "Amerristiquiqque" for "land where the wind blows constantly", which is the name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, and the Spanish word "Rica" for rich, like in "Costa Rica" (Rich Coast) as Spanish sailors would ask Carib Amerindians where their gold came from.
The smallpox blankets event happened before germ theory existed. The plan was based on miasma theory.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"The truth is always stronger than the lie."
One is a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
the other is a paraphrase of a paraphrase
of a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
with the "In British culture" part missing.
Guess which one is which.
(P.S. I disavow German fascism.
It's just the more I learn about the US or UK,
the more I'm surprised that fascism took hold in Germany... (first.))
You can speeddrift on the top of the tube on Purple, a classic Trackmania fullspeed map, and continuing the SD from the top to the next section without cutting it but with a little overdrift alows you to set World Record if done correctly
Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, testified in defense of evolution at a trial in Arkansas then was on the same plane as Bill Clinton during Clinton's interregnum between governorships. Clinton said he "would have vetoed that bill", meaning the bill mandating equal time for creationism.
Eric Blair was a Trotskyist who wrote
Animal Farm and 1984 to spite Stalin,
as Stalin turned on Trotsky,
as Trotsky was a one-world-government proponent,
(with Moscow as its capital),
with the argument that capitalist nations would do anything
to isolate and destroy socialist nations,
whereas Stalin thought that socialism would bring the
Soviet Union enough success to defend itself.
This had far-reaching consequences for
Eric Blair who was participating in the
Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939,
having joined the Trotskyist resistance group
and saw the Stalinists resistance group turn on them
and outright attacked them.
What follows is a guide on how to hurt your hand. No not do it. Do not "do it just a little bit". I actually strained my hand when I first discoverd this and honestly dont want anyone hurt because of my comment:
::: spoiler dont do this
If you wrap your fingers around your thumb (like a closed fist with your thumb on the inside and pull the thumb down you can hurt your hand.
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minnow@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 336d
Diamonds aren't stable and will eventually, over billions of years, decompose from their cubic molecular structure to carbon's more stable form, graphite, which has a hexagonal molecular structure.
Oh, here's another good gemstone related one!
Amethyst and citrine are both quartz varieties, and if the color source happens to be from traces of iron in the crystal lattice, one can be turned into the other. Heating amethyst can make citrine, and irradiating citrine can turn it into amethyst. This is because the only actual difference between the two is the valiance level of a specific election in the iron atom giving the stone its color.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 336d
You know, I think I've heard something about hexagons on the internet before ...
beercupcake@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 335d
So if i bake a piece of amethyst in my oven i get cutrin, or we are talking about much greater temperatures?
minnow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
NGL I'm not very familiar with the technical details, but I know quartz is pretty temperature sensitive and starts to get damaged about 400F iirc
It's possible special conditions are needed to really succeed, like low/no oxygen or a long duration at a lower temperature.
But theoretically, the answer to your question is "yes"
beercupcake@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 333d
That's cool AF :3
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 336d
Bedsheet thread counts have been artificially inflated for years by the shifty linen companies counting individual fibers that the threads consist of as threads themselves. It’s become a meaningless number, since there is zero regulation. If you want a nice thick heavy cloth, GSM is the number you want, but most companies won’t share this (looking at you, The Company Store) because they obviously don’t want you to know how thin and flimsy their products really are before you buy them.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
What is GSM?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 335d
The thickness of the cloth
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 335d
What does the acronyms stand for?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 334d
I misstated the definition a bit, although in real world terms a higher GSM does often manifest as a thicker cloth. GSM stands for grams per square meter. It measures how much fabric weighs in a given area. It is a weight rating, not a thickness rating.
Higher GSM means denser, heavier fabric. Lower GSM means lighter, more breathable fabric.
General guide:
120–140 GSM = lightweight (summer sheets, thin shirts)
150–170 GSM = medium weight (jersey sheets, linen duvet covers)
180–250 GSM = heavier weight (flannel, winter bedding)
GSM helps compare feel and durability across materials, but thickness will vary by fiber type.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
Thanks!
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 334d
Grams per square metre
BiggestPiggest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
Americans probably want in trucks per square football field. Anything but metric.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 334d
Then shouldn't it be g/m^2 ?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 334d
I'm not going to speculate on what it should or could be. I'm just telling you what it is
Paper weight is also commonly expressed in gsm
Jentu@lemmy.ml · 65 pts · 336d
You know how geese fly in a “v” shaped pattern in the sky? One side of the “v” is usually longer than the other. The reason for that is that there’s more geese on that side.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 336d
You can tell by the way it is!
Twanquility@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 335d
They do it for efficiency, like ducklings after their mother. Have you ever seen a large boat from above? The wake spreads out behind it, in this v-shape. It's like a wave following the boat, and the ducklings can "surf" on the v-shaped wave, after their mother, and they don't have to paddle as hard.
Hugin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
And the name of that shape is a chevron.
monovergent@lemmy.ml · 56 pts · 336d
Several popular graphing calculators from Texas Instruments, including the TI-83 and TI-84, have a display resolution of 96*64, but only 95*63 pixels are used for graphing.
However, the earlier TI-81 did use all 96*64 pixels. The rationale for this change was to establish a central row and column for the axes and a central pixel for the origin. The cursor could only move pixel-by-pixel, and since the axes and origin would end up "between" pixels on the TI-81, they were inaccessible by the cursor.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 336d
The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.
victorz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 336d
What an absolutely egregious waste of resources.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 336d
They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still...idiots.
borokov@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 336d
There are more hydrogen atom in a single molecule of water than there are star in the entire solar system.
locuester@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 336d
…. There’s only 1 star in our solar system, the Sun.
I assume you meant the Milky Way galaxy, or perhaps the Universe?
EDIT: ah ok it’s a play on words a bit. Yes 2 > 1
pocker_machine@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 336d
H2O
locuester@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 336d
lol ok I get it now. It is indeed a bit of a play on words.
borokov@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
😇
Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 336d
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This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z.
That's how it got its name. People would say "X,Y,Z, and, per se, And". (And "sort of" an and). Thus, "And per se And" became Ampersand.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 335d
per se means on its own
lepinkainen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 335d
And in Finnish ”perse” means ass
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 335d
nice
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Nice perse
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
I love the corruption of the saying to give us the name. Reminds me of "Goodbye" being a corruption of "God be with ye".
NKBTN@feddit.uk · 44 pts · 336d
I just touched my nose. Until I posted this, I was the only person who knew this fact.
NKBTN@feddit.uk · 27 pts · 336d
But I'll give you one of my favourite obscure-ish fact instead: baby sloths are so inept, they sometimes mistake their own limbs for tree branches, grab hold of them with one limb, let go of the actual branch, and fall out of the tree
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 15 pts · 336d
Naw. Steve, the FBI agent assigned to you, and Dave, my roomie, were just discussing it.
I think Steve kinda likes you...
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d
That is the most obscure fact in this thread so far.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 336d
Most male cats, when investigating something with a paw, will use the left paw.
2deck@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 336d
Why? Are they... alright?
zipsglacier@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 335d
No, half left
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
Oh no, what happened to the other half?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 335d
It left
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 1 pts · 334d
I was about to say that it's usually the right paw I see my cat slowly inching towards my face to slap me for not getting food ready yet while I pretend to be asleep but then realized that you specified male and that she is not.
Sal@mander.xyz · 38 pts · 335d
If you catch a frog in between your hands and quickly flip it around, you can get the frog into a kind of paralyzed state called 'tonic immobility'.
Here is a photo from Wikipedia:
OK, well, many years ago I was very interested in this phenomenon and decided to look into the literature.
I found a paper from 1928 titled "On The Mechanism of Tonic Immobility in Vertebrates" written by Hudson Hoagland (PDF link).
In this paper, the author describes contraptions he used to analyze the small movement (or lack of movement) in animals while in this state. They look kind of like torture devices:
OK, but, that's still not it.... The obscure fact is found in the first footnote of that paper, on page #2:
Apparently this or a similar effect can be observed in humans too?! In this paper, the author himself claims to have done this and that it works! I tried to locate more recent resources describing this phenomenon in humans but I could not find them... Is this actually possible? If so, why is this not better documented? Or, maybe it is better documented but understood as a different type of reflex today? Not sure.
zipsglacier@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
Doublenut@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 335d
Like you'd see crazy evangelical pactors do to people on tv?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 335d
Sal@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 335d
Ha, maybe! I don't remember if I ever saw a 180 flip. This is the closest I could find from a quick search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZpIglVnYuY
If you have a video with the 180 degree flip I would really like to see it. This context seems like a plausible place to see such a move in modern days. I would imagine that in some martial arts this effect would be well known.
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 3 pts · 334d
I don't think anyone was bent over at 90° in the video?
Regardless, that video is incredible; sending it to my ex-Evangelical partner immediately.
Sal@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 334d
Yeah, I'm still looking. This is the closest I found so far
tpyo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
That reminds me of a "game" kids would (try) to play when I was young at school. The kids would say to do just that "bend over, take a deep breath" and the other one would try to lift them up really quickly. I never saw it work. I guess you were supposed to pass out. Idk
Sal@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 335d
Some of these 'games' do trigger real physiological mechanisms. A well-documented example is the Valsalva maneuver, where forcefully exhaling against a closed mouth and nose affects heart rate and blood pressure.
In some games, this maneuver (or similar) is combined with a second action that normally increases blood flow demand to the brain. The mismatch between reduced blood pressure and sudden demand can cause dizziness or brief loss of consciousness due to insufficient oxygen reaching the brain.
Actually, there is a similar effect sometimes seen during heavy deadlifts, suddenly releasing can sometimes make people pass out. There are many “deadlift passing out” videos online.
So, those 'games' can work. I have known of kids breaking their teeth after face-planting against the floor while playing those games. Not a very smart thing to do.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Yup did that as a kid. Totally passed out. Later found out it's kind of dangerous.
tpyo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
I'm glad nothing went awry. I was always skeptical about it because no one figured it out. It's crazy what we do especially as kids with our innocent bliss
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 332d
You got that right. Lost my eyebrows once designing "custom rocket engines" with my best friend. Ahhhh, good times.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
You can also do this with rabbits.
lime@feddit.nu · 33 pts · 336d
the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 ^3^⁄
32in railway in the world....honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as "obscure".
::: spoiler so, bonus:
the siljan area of sweden has a history of building observation towers:
the tower in the black-and-white photo, which started this trend, was financed by a man who made a fortune making and selling multiplication books. basically like books of logarithm tables but only for multiplication. 1×1 to 9999×9999.
also that entire area is europe's largest meteorite crater:
:::
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 336d
For a minute I thought that meant the railway was ~3ft long
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 336d
The dot above the letter i is called a tittle.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
The things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
The thing at the back of your throat is called the. "Hangy downy thingy"
lefty7283@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 336d
Opossums have 13 nipples
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 336d
Additional fun fact about nipples:
In mammals, a species' typical litter size is one less than their normal number of nipples.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 335d
So do tri-nipped women have twins more often? Inquiring minds want to know!
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 336d
Chinese scientists worked to create the "humanzee," a human-chimpanzee hybrid in the '60s. Female chimpanzees were impregnated with human sperm. The experiment was cut short by the Cultural Revolution - the scientists were sent to labor camps and a three-months pregnant chimpanzee died of neglect. The Soviets attempted a similar program in the '20s.
DreasNil@feddit.nu · 12 pts · 336d
This sounds like a bunch of b***shit so I had to look it up. Seems like you're actually right... 😳
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 335d
Seriously find a source. a three month pregnant chimpanzee, pregnant with a humanzee, died of neglect? Sure, Humanzee experiments were attempted but because of how biology works, two species as different as a chimpanzee and a human cannot make children.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 335d
Certainly!
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 307d
It is scientifically impossible for species as different as chimpanzees and humans to mate.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 304d
the Sturddlefish would like a word.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 336d
A lot of people know of the April Fools 418 I’m a Teapot error code, but did you know there’s a full Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol from the same RFC for running a coffee pot server? It even includes an HTCPCP method named “WHEN” to let the pot know it has poured enough cream.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 336d
There are no extant recordings of George Orwell's voice
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 336d
Also, the word doublespeak isn't from Orwell. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he used the term Newspeak, meaning a sort of clipped form of language designed to limit expression of thought, and doublethink, the practice of holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time and believing both to be true, but he never used the word doublespeak.
Interestingly though, it actually predates Nineteen Eighty-Four, but nobody really knows who coined it exactly.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 336d
Newspeak was inspired by Esperanto, because George Orwell had an annoying Esperantist roommate. "bad" in Esperanto is "malbone," literally "un-good." "terrible" in Esperanto is "malbonege," literally "very ungood."
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
Also Esperanto at the time was hoped to be the universal second language of the working class. That did not mean esperantists were any less annoying then though
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 335d
they meant well! honestly Esperanto has a really positive community, even still. but I can see how it'd get on someone's nerves.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 336d
Living at high altitude for long periods of time can cause a disease that is otherwise most associated with cocaine and meth.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension has some weird causes, but it seems that high altitude and having to work for enough oxygen can cause the body to revolt.
scytale@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 336d
Did Sherpas develop a defense against this? Or are they more susceptible because of their exposure to higher altitudes?
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Honestly I wish I knew. The disease is relatively unknown, so I doubt there's been studies like that.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 335d
If I remember correctly they do. The haemoglobin is better in holding oxygen
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1062785/
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 335d
Ancient Egypt was ancient before it ended. The time when Cleopatra ruled is about as close to today as it was to the first pyramids.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 335d
It's actually even wilder than that.
The earliest know pyramids date back to around 2600BCE, and Cleopatra reigned around 50-30BCE, so her reign is closer to the modern day than to the first pyramids by about 600 years. One of the earliest surviving pyramids, Djoser, was built by Imhotep (with help, I assume) during a period called the Third Egyptian Dynasty meaning, as it's name suggests, the unified Kingdom of Egypt was already well-established by the time it was built. The First Dynasty started about 3100BCE so even ignoring the proto-Dynasty period of Egypt, that's pretty humbling: if you drew a timeline with the founding of Ancient Egypt on the left and the founding of OnlyFans to the right, Cleopatra would be three-fifths of the way along it.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 335d
Cleopatra had a kid with Julius Caesar lmao. When you think of it like that it makes more sense.
riccardo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 334d
One of my favorite facts is that while the first pyramids were being built, there were still Mammoth roaming some northern European regions (never checked whether this is true or not but I've heard it so many times that I want to believe it is true)
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 3 pts · 334d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad77_c-LU
Nemoder@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 335d
When a drug company in the 80s scaled up production they accidentally created seed crystals that spread around the entire Earth's atmosphere that prevented other companies from manufacturing a generic drug without it attaching to the seeds and converting to the patented drug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph#Paroxetine_hydrochloride
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 334d
Of course it was GSK with paroxetine
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 334d
Ok, that's absolutely bonkers
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl · 3 pts · 334d
And it's merely a hypothesis, there is no proof. Also we can assume that chemical plants are aware and have taken precautions, but it still happens. Back in the day it was speculated that chemists caried microcrystals around in their beards. This problem has been around for a while. One of the coolest hypothesis has been put forward by Rupert Sheldrake. He thinks that there is something in nature akin to memory. A force of nature as you will.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 336d
The tiniest park in the USA is located on a city street corner in Portland, Oregon. Mill Ends Park
Edit: I fell down a rabbit hole. Corrected myself having posted it originally as “world’s smallest park” which is how I knew it - apparently it carried that distinction until Feb this year when a tiny space on a Japanese street (which was created in 1988) formally applied for, and was awarded the Guinness book of records title of World’s Smallest Park.
Also this one just popped into my head - the Guinness Book of Records was originally conceived as a means of settling arguments by compiling factual “records”. The original argument related to a shooting trip in England in which the Managing Director of Guinness Breweries partook, where a missed shot led to a disagreement about the fastest game bird. The realisation that arguments such as this would be commonplace, and that no resource existed to settle such matters - the niche for capturing these types of facts was identified and the book was born.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 335d
The older editions are lot more encyclopaedia like too, some super detailed descriptions of things like cars - right down to the gear ratios.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 336d
HD-DVD and Blu-ray weren't the only HD video disc formats competing for dominance in the '00s. HD VMD which was basically a DVD containing more layers unsuccessfully tried to compete with the two. The company who produced it dissolved in 2008 and only a few titles were ever released on the format.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 336d
There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
I don't think anything you just said is correct.
I cannot find anything about a tape format called "LP-2000" that came out in 1970.
Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren't nearly as successful as Sony's Betamax format which lost the format war to...
VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita...and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.
The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it's U-Matic.
memfree@piefed.social · 23 pts · 336d
The entomology book Life on a Little Known Planet taught me that bebugs mate via "traumatic insemination". The female has no opening, so the male pierces the exoskeleton and the wound later heals over -- all of which allows entomologoists to count the number of times a female has mated by the number of scars on their abdomen.
victorz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Imagine if that were us, eh. #MeToo would be a different movement I bet.
dave@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 336d
2” x 4” construction timber is 1.5” x 3.5” because of industrialisation (not shrinkflation)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 335d
Because of universe expansion. (I guess industrialisation also works)
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 335d
Much as a 12oz steak won’t weigh exactly twelve ounces when served to you after cooking them a 2x4 piece of wood was nominally that measurement prior to the kiln drying process.
dave@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 334d
It’s more that they used to be shipped 2x4 unfinished, and would be planed smooth on site. Once the equipment and distribution was able to do the planing before it got to the customer, they had so much established practice that the installed timber would be smaller, they had to keep to what people were used to.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
xkcd?
drzoidberg@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 336d
Fun fact, you can, in fact, make sourdough with the yeast from a yeast infection, and bake with it.
Focal@pawb.social · 28 pts · 336d
:(
dom@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 336d
Wasn't a fan. Gave it a bit of a fishy taste
phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 332d
Oh. Oh no.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 336d
Diabetics piss has so much sugar in it that you can make high end whiskey with it.
Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 336d
Wouldnt it be low end whiskey? For various reasons.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
I don't want to think too deeply about it that I consider taste.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 336d
So...
How does it taste?
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
I said you COULD... not that anyone had... Or should.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 336d
Someone needs to tell NileRed
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
Who's that?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 336d
A chemistry YouTuber who is into converting weird things into weird things
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
Lol. I'd watch somebody try it but I wouldn't be brave enough to try it myself.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 334d
So I quickly gave myself diabetes...
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
What about NileBlue?
monovergent@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 335d
A certain James Gilpin apparently did make it from his grandmother's urine. And set up a tasting session for it.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 335d
Not obscure but apparently a lot of people aren't aware that sheep don't have top teeth in front.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 335d
TIL. I've looked gift horses in the mouth but never gift sheep /s
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 17 pts · 336d
Barnacles, relative to body size, have the longest penises in the world
FalseTautology@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 335d
The tsetse fly has the longest sperm, regardless of body size.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 336d
The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with...whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.
When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 336d
Darwin drank tortoise piss and, according to his documentation, didn’t hate it.
Twanquility@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 335d
Freaky guy.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 16 pts · 335d
The Latin meaning of the color ultramarine is "over the sea" Also, they once made a pigment called mummy, which was literally made out of finely grinded mummy.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 335d
in the same vein, cerulean (blue) comes from caelum, the sky
Unusable3151@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 335d
There is a dust layer in the ice at the South Pole about 2km under the surface that interferes with about 5000 photomultiplier tubes spread out over a cubic kilometer in the ice that are watching for light created from high energy muons moving faster than the speed of light in the ice that were in turn the result of the very rare chance of a high energy neutrino interacting with the nucleus of a single atom in the ice.
setInner234@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 335d
Just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly: Faster than the speed of light, within the medium, right? So the neutrinos are a bit like Cherenkov radiation. But not actually faster than the speed of light, since if that was happening, my world view was just revised rather abruptly :)
Unusable3151@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 335d
You're correct! It is Cherenkov Radiation; specifically from the muon (or electron or tau) that is a result of the neutrino interacting with the nucleus of an atom because Cherenkov Radiation happens with charged particles.
setInner234@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 334d
Thank you for confirming :)
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 335d
I thought dust was human skin cells? What is this dust layer
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d
There's, uh, lots of different kinds of dust.
Also that one is mostly a myth.
Unusable3151@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 335d
mineral aerosols.
here is a recent paper trying to figure out the composition from ice core samples for a given age range and location
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37061058/
rodbiren@midwest.social · 14 pts · 335d
A large amount of visual inspections on the inside of nuclear reactors is done literally with a camera duct taped to either a really really long pole assembled in sections or a rope. Operators "swim" the cameras to various locations and camera handling is basically an occupation in that field. You also need camera shots for any work being done on the inside of the flooded reactor with, again, really really long poles that end up acting more like pool noodles at such a length. It is silly and difficult work. Also you basically are wearing a trash bag sitting above a hot tub while doing this work. So it is a wild experience.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 336d
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 336d
The smallest extant flightless bird in the world is the Inaccessible Rail.
Lokoschade@feddit.org · 11 pts · 335d
Not that obscure, but most orange cats are male since the orange gene is tied to the x-chromosom, so male cats only need one copy to appear orange. Female cats have to have the orange gene on both x-chromosom to be fully orange.
And usually only female cats can be calico/tortoise since the orange gene is co-dominant, so if they only have one copy of the orange gene both the orange and black will be visible.
A seemingly male calico/tortoise cat is usually intersex and sterile.
Juice@midwest.social · 10 pts · 335d
Marx did actually consider human nature
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 336d
This thread made me realise I don't really know anything interesting
some_random_nick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
That's interesting in itself, isn't it?
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
I find boring people stimulating!
muxika@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Fish mate inside of a sea cucumber's anus.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 334d
I don't exist. I had a meeting and voted. It was unanimous.
18107@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 334d
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 304d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 334d
I undiagnosed myself. I'm okay. This is fine.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d
We just had a follow up meeting here and decided the previous findings were incorrect and that you do exist. I don't know if this is a relief to you or not.
Hugin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Most military simulation databases have a classified and unclassified version. In the unclassified database a spefic russian apc is usually set to be indestructable.
It's used for a quick test when setting up a federated sim. Drop one in the sim and trigger a detonation at the location. It should either be destroyed or not in all the instances.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 335d
Could do with a bit more explanation on this one.
Hugin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d
So military simulation for actual militaries is used for training. There are programs like OneSAF a training and stimulation RTS or VBS2 a first person shooter.
They can all be networked together using a federated system. Similar to Lemmy there is no master instance. Each program is trusted and manages it's entities like tanks and soldiers.
They each have their own database that can be classified or not. The classified database has very accurate stats and the nonclassified has general simple stats. Think people leaking classified documents on War Thunder to get their tank better stats in the game.
Because each system is using it's own database you don't want some system using classified data and some not. So in the unclassified databases a spefic unit type is set to invulnerable.
So if it's supposed to be an unclassified stimulation you fire up the sims and create one of the special units. You then trigger a detonation like an airstrike at the location of the unit.
The unit should be fine as it's invulnerable. You then go and check each stimulation and if it's been destroyed that one is using a classified database and you need to change it out before letting people use the system.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
It sounds like inception. Is this a way that generals being tested can tell if it's a real test or not?
capuccino@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 336d
what planet? I never heard of this. Wait. Its orion isn't it.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
The origin of the name 'Amerigo' Vespucci is 'Emmerich' in German. So the namesake of a contintent is a very demure provincial city close to the German/Dutch border.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
The first iteration of the baptist church was a militaristic commie org. That took over a small town.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
The correct spelling of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
folaht@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 334d
The word "America" does not come from Amerigo Vespucci, but is likely an amalgamation of
the Mayan word "Amerristiquiqque" for "land where the wind blows constantly", which is the name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, and the Spanish word "Rica" for rich, like in "Costa Rica" (Rich Coast) as Spanish sailors would ask Carib Amerindians where their gold came from.
The smallpox blankets event happened before germ theory existed. The plan was based on miasma theory.
krunklom@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 336d
Joe
folaht@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 333d
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"The truth is always stronger than the lie."
One is a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
the other is a paraphrase of a paraphrase
of a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
with the "In British culture" part missing.
Guess which one is which.
(P.S. I disavow German fascism.
It's just the more I learn about the US or UK,
the more I'm surprised that fascism took hold in Germany... (first.))
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 334d
You can speeddrift on the top of the tube on Purple, a classic Trackmania fullspeed map, and continuing the SD from the top to the next section without cutting it but with a little overdrift alows you to set World Record if done correctly
qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 334d
Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, testified in defense of evolution at a trial in Arkansas then was on the same plane as Bill Clinton during Clinton's interregnum between governorships. Clinton said he "would have vetoed that bill", meaning the bill mandating equal time for creationism.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 333d
Eric Blair was a Trotskyist who wrote
Animal Farm and 1984 to spite Stalin,
as Stalin turned on Trotsky,
as Trotsky was a one-world-government proponent,
(with Moscow as its capital),
with the argument that capitalist nations would do anything
to isolate and destroy socialist nations,
whereas Stalin thought that socialism would bring the
Soviet Union enough success to defend itself.
This had far-reaching consequences for
Eric Blair who was participating in the
Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939,
having joined the Trotskyist resistance group
and saw the Stalinists resistance group turn on them
and outright attacked them.
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 304d
You should read Grover Furr's book on Trotskty's collaboration with the Nazis.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 334d
What follows is a guide on how to hurt your hand. No not do it. Do not "do it just a little bit". I actually strained my hand when I first discoverd this and honestly dont want anyone hurt because of my comment:
::: spoiler dont do this
If you wrap your fingers around your thumb (like a closed fist with your thumb on the inside and pull the thumb down you can hurt your hand.
:::
Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 336d
Dogs can't look up
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 336d
mcz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 336d
That's sheep
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 335d
just because Big Al says so...
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -9 pts · 335d
the reason you fart and shit at the same time is because shit and air is coming out of your ass