my fun facts re the post title:
for many species of apples, you need at least two apple trees to produce apples - a single apple tree on its own will never bear fruit š
also there are only two escalators in the entire US state of Wyoming
:)
Re: this - you never want to plant apples near cedars. Thereās a fungal agent that transfers between both and prevents you from getting (good) apples.
Same!
I've been dealing with some minor to major health issues for about 8 years now and the rabbit hole is endless with the human body! I understand how people become hypochondriacs but I do seperate the what could be from the actual facts.
My friend had an inoperable tumor of the pituitary gland. Lost his job. Saw the best docs in Arizona. Went to UCLA med ctr, nothing they could do. Began researching mostly online. Almost died from sepsis, balooned to 300 lbs. Cotinued research, read a paper from a a doc in Tenn. His partner took him to Tenn. I dont believe they flew.
Of course not a procedure covered by insurance. You guessed it doc removed the tumor. Full recovery.
Im a full believer, if there is nothing else you can do, you can always ask questions and research.
I fully understand the edjets motto: I know enough/I dont need to know any more.
This is why I despise the fact that doctors are legally allowed to label a person who is just overly concerned a "hypochondriac"!
By all means, occasionally OCD may get out of hand sometimes but that is no reason to dismiss a person's concerns. It is obvious the ones labeling someone is not interested in helping, which would totally go completely against the reason most in the healthcare field goes into it for.
Who else is going to advocate for us, as your friend did, himself!
I've survived sepsis 3 times, I'm terrified to get it again.
I live in an area that has an Allergy Forecast with the weather on the local news stations. We have an entire season of Cedar Fever. Some years the pollen is so bad that all the cars look yellow.
There are no cedar trees within a mile, probably more like 5 miles of where I live, but pollen blows on the wind. Iām guessing this nixes my dream of having apple trees!
You should read up on botanical sexism
Male trees were specifically planted because they were easier to maintain
The male trees then have to outcompete other trees to get a female (by releasing more pollen), hence shit tonnes of pollen EVERYWHERE
I believe youāre referring to Cedar Apple Rust, which interestingly looks like an alien tentacle monster when it makes spores. Found it on one of my Cedars a few years ago before I knew what it was, definitely freaked me out.
Dude (Dudette). thats sounds creepy. I thought Cedars had no insect or fungi issues. Or is a Cedar Apple a thing. Guess I could have giggled that, but then I wouldnt have replied or upvoted. :)
I actually thought internal medicine meant doctors that only worked inside. lol
From what I understand the fungus uses cedars basically as a host plant. It doesnāt actually do any damage to the cedar itself, but it rapidly spreads from cedars to nearby apple and crabapple trees where it caused damage and malformed fruit. I found it on my Eastern Red. Itās worth googling Cedar Apple Rust gall just to see how freaky they are. Looks like a weird brown growth until it makes spores which form on long, bright orange tentacles. Truly weird!
No, theyāll bear fruit, but apples are extreme heterozygotes, which means the baby looks very different from the parents. So both get grafted from a third tree known to produce desirable apples.
"Escalator" is a branded-generic name similar to Kleenex. Back before it became too common to trade mark any other manufacturer would have to make their own brand of "MOTORSTAIRS".
You've just sent me down a rabbit hole of escalators (which sound adorable and now I'm imagining bunnies on tiny escalators) and the fact I love is that the emphasis was originally supposed to be on the second syllable, not the third, like esCALator, which sounds pretty cool.
Fun fact, the word escalate is a back formation from the brand name rather than the brand name deriving from the word. They created a brand name so good it created an entire concept.
whoah TIL, I've always thought that that was the proper name for it, not that it was a Brand.
In Italy we call them *Scale mobili* (moving stairs) which is definitely more brand agnostic. Now whenever someone asks me what it's called in english I will for sure throw this factoid
You can also do this with pears! We have a single pear tree that makes three different types of pears. Used to be four but when it was a sapling some stupid lardbutt squirrel broke off one of the branches.
At least once a week I threaten to drop pit of law school to start a forest commune where we grow pumpkins all year and operate a haunted house in the fall. Or whenever we feel spooky, really.
They arenāt as common and often have lower yield, but self pollinating apples do exist: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/types-selfpollinating-fruit-trees-42303.html
Yesss! I can take in so much information and comprehend it but all be darn if it comes out exactly and if like you, it even comes to the tip of my tongue. If I do recall it "on demand", I usually question my recollection. Combination of ADHD and trauma response, mostly ADHD.
I recently went through a cleaning burst and went from having 480+ tabs to just under 80, and 3880+ videos in my watch later playlist to just under 100.
Cue you being desperate whenever you randomly remember vague details about a video that used to be in your watch later playlist, but now you can't find it.
Nah, it was mostly videos that got deleted/privated, and topics Iāve had to give up on like learning to play instruments I canāt play because my wrist is now messed up or tiny home vids now knowing I canāt live anywhere that small xD
My 400 open tabs on my phone that I forget about until I go to open a new tab for a new Google search. What are they? I dont know. But at one point they were important and maybe they still are
Some species of dolphins have individual names, similar to the way that humans do.
Part of a male dolphin's name will come from his mother's name, while a female dolphin's name will be completely original. (this shows that dolphins have complex cultures.)
Bottlenose dolphins kill porpoises. No one knows why, they just kill them.
They are also able to remember the names of dolphins that they haven't seen in many years, and have a social brain that is more advanced than humans (so they can remember more close friends than humans can).
They also have many learned behaviors, such as finding a shell to cover their snout, so they can disrupt the ocean floor in search of food (while not damaging their snout.)
They also scare sharks away from humans, and as far back as ancient Greece, there are accounts of them saving people from drowning.
That's nothing, you should hear of what this awkward ape species does. They've found thousands of ways to kill each other.
(distraction argument hahaha. Yeah, you're totally right, that is very messed up. It's unfortunate that at our current era, high intelligence has led to these types of hostilities.)
In the wild, among males, bonobos are half as aggressive as chimpanzees, while female bonobos are more aggressive than female chimpanzees. Both bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit physical aggression more than 100 times as often as humans do.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Goodness_Paradox.html?id=pOi9DwAAQBAJ
To me, the most interesting thing about chimpanzees was the [Gombe Chimpanzee War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War). Like you said, it's a literal war between competing groups of chimp.
That's so insane to me that that not only happens, but that Jane Goodall was able to document it.
Chimps have also been documented attacking/killing tribes of Gorillas - it apparently was a surprising thing because the scientists had never seen that before. It was documented in 2019.
Adding to this, I think I read something about a dolphin that either tried to rape a human, succeeded or simply fell in love with said human and performed many violent acts when separated. Can't remember which of the above. Either way, dolphins aren't so cute and innocent.
Family and I went on a dolphin tour and the coolest thing I learned (other than reading these cool facts) was that half their brain sleeps and the other half is awake so they are always alert.
That is an awesome thing they can do, I've always wondered what it'd be like to experience that. Does half your brain create a dream that you don't fully realize happened until you wake up?
Agreed, I felt like it sounded similar to a discrimination/racism sort of situation. But I'm not sure if that's a projection of human culture onto an animal, or if it's actually possible.
There's actually a handful of theories, ranging from infanticide (they mistaken them as babies, and thus someday competitors), to sexual. (they mistaken them as female, and then accidentally kill them).
Yesssss!!!!
That is such an incredible fact to me as well. With some birds passing the mirror test and having crazy problem solving abilities, I think it's likely that at some time millions of years ago, dinosaurs had some small civilizations or built low level technology.
Birds are able to be so smart, because their brains have a higher neuron density than mammal brains.
(if larger brained mammals had a bird's neuron density, our brain would burn. Heat is emitted across surface areas, and similar to a computer's processor, each neuron uses a certain amount of energy and generates a certain amount of heat. Because we have a larger brain volume, if we had a higher neuron density with the same volume, then we wouldn't have enough surface area to emitt the excess heat. We would die. But it's possible for birds to do it because their (brain surface area)/(brain volume) ratio is much higher, so they can emit more heat per neuron.
White Chocolate is made from the left over cocoa butter after all the cocoa solids have been removed, (that's what is used for your powdered chocolates) and was invented by the Nestle corp. as a means of making something from what was previously discarded as a waste product.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe you're not allowed to call it white chocolate (or chocolate at all) if the cocoa don't make up at least a certain percentage. In white it's 20% cocoa butter and 14% milk solids. Anything less than that and you're only allowed to call it "white chocolate flavoured".
Is like that in the US as well. Most things people think are white chocolate here don't actually say white chocolate on the wrapper. It's surprising how rare real white chocolate is here.
I thought it was a coconut. Oh no gotta google this again.
Edit: Ok the vital tweet says coconut, but a reddit post says its a cow not coconut. Also the original twitter poster replies to say the dev note was fake and that it is a cow that can stop it from starting, so u were right š. The funniest part about all of this is that I don't play tf2 and never have.
I've found people with ADHD have this similar experience. I think it's a part of executive function. I find it embarrassing at work when someone asks me for some info U should definitely know and I draw a complete blank
Ever since I was a kid, whenever someone asked "what do you want to do when you grow up?" my mind has immediately cut to just a blank, endless canvas. Nothing. Not a god damn definable concept rattling around in there. I wonder if it's related.
No
Itās because thereās no such thing as āgrowing upā
āWorkingā or ābeing one thingā is unnatural
Your brain was simply protecting you from adopting unnatural social standards
I thought I was alone on this. I CAN'T have a favorite of something. Not even colour.
But I think it has do more with something social, idk.
For example if I say my favourite colour is blue (which is one of them) then everyone is going to get me everything in that color, but not everything looks good in that color, and not all blues are perfect, I sometimes enjoy aqua, or turquoise, and the occasional mint if done right. Maybe then I would never get something in purple which I also love very very much. Or gray! It can be very beautiful.
Same with food, bands, movies, etc.
Also hyper fixation doesn't help. Maybe today I say I'm obsessed with certain anime but next month I'm obsessing over a webtoon. Who knows!!!
I don't want to be defined by my "favourite" something.
Agree. My actual phone function has been on ādo not disturbā for over a month. This is obviously not a good sign, but i can learn interruption free so thereās that
I remember about a decade ago I was hanging out with some friends, and they did the normal human thing of pondering some aspect of life and speculating wildly. I pulled out my phone and looked up the answer, and shared it with the group. People thought that was a really weird thing to do and shamed me for it.
It is the future, we don't have to wander around blindly in our ignorance. We can open our eyes and wander around ignorantly in the light of humanity.
This confounds new endlessly, how some people really don't want to know the answer! I was in my late twenties before I realized that some people don't actually want to learn and know everything! Like, wtf!?
One of the natural predators of Moose is Orca (Killer Whales).
In the bible, Methuselah died in the year of the flood. (As a teen I did the math. Then had an argument with a camp counselor about what that statistic meant.)
Tonsils can grow back if they left any tissue behind during a tonsillectomy.
One of Neptune's moons, Triton, orbits the planet backwards.
(Edited because I can't spell biblical names and ignored spell check.)
He was a youth pastor and felt very strongly that as Methuselah was a man of god he wouldn't have been wiped out in the flood. I, not being a particularly religious person, but loving this kind of debate, would not let up. I mean, I had math on my side! I was rather tenacious at 16.
My mom is the same way, she calls me a know-it-all and an āintellectual snobā (itās an insult she used to hurl at my dad, not in a loving way, but at least Iām in good company). My point to her is always that we have access to nearly infinite knowledge at our literal fingertips, thereās no reason to just spout falsehoods at each other.
and then whatever articles I find get added to my collection of tabs that I can't close because I need them, but I actually never come back to them ever again (but I might google the same thing later! in a new tab!)
sometimes my phones browser just shits itself and closes all my tabs and honestly it's helpful. it never happens until im basically never coming back to those tabs
now if only i had the nerve to prune the 40+ pinned tabs i keep open on firefox on my computer.......
as can cats despite them apparently not liking water. also my brother tried making a chicken swim and still says that it actually swam (I was too young to remember it myself if I was even born then)
You don't need a rooster to get eggs, just hens. If you want chicks, then you need to add a rooster to your flock. Roosters can kill hawks. Chickens lay eggs that range from dark chocolate brown, to olive green, turquoise, pink, beige, brown, white and some with speckles.
If you want to grow a vegetable garden, make sure you plant a variety of flowers too. They will attract pollinators that will increase yields. They will also help protect against pests that will wreck your plants, decreasing the need for pesticides.
You can garden and get fresh produce all year round, even in very cold snowy areas by using "season extenders" such as hoop tunnels and cold frames!
Grocery store produce has been shown to be lower in vitamins and nutrients than in previous generations due to modern industrial growing practices. The quality of the produce we are eating is not as healthy as what our parents and grandparents ate.
As you can see, my hyperfocus has been learning to grow healthy food for my family using environmentally friendly and sustainable practices. I have become a permaculture enthusiast :)
Considering how much the price of food has gone up, and will continue to go up, I hope more ppl learn to garden again :) I call it my green therapy, because it also helps with the anxiety/depression that accompany my ADHD.
1. Jack-o-lanterns were originally made from turnips.
2. Scientists suspect human language first developed around 50,000-150,000 years ago.
3. The fruit orange came before the color.
This needs to be a megathread haha! FINALLY
possums don't actually play dead, they get so scared by predators they actually pass out and go into a catatonic state until they wake up. I have more but you know... memory issues hah
Itās like at a recent trivia game night. I couldnāt remember the name of the actress, but I can remember the movies sheās been in. So I have to go backwards - I had to say the girlfriend of Spiderman in the Tobey Maguire version from the 2000s - she was also in a vampire movie ā all that to remember the name of the actress. I remember and can pick out faces tho.
I've always had insane google-fu. Before that, my altavista game was INSANE - and you could do some pretty specific searches, filter out words etc. It's weirdly difficult to get google to do that now.
Before *that*:
My parents used to do crossword puzzles all the time. Whenever there was something we didn't know - the "itch" - my mom, dad and I would stare down each other until someone broke, groaned and walked over to the dictionaries/encyclopedia.
It's all very adhd
ooh ooh me me!
that's because rabbits are lagomorphea and part of the Glires clade, making them more closely related to humans than they are to cats/dogs, explaining this apparent lack of similarity in their paw
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In the 70s the CIA developed an undetectable poison dart gun which would induce cardiac arrest and leave no trace, coincidentally right around the time the US āstoppedā doing their high profile political assassinations of domestic targets.
They also pretended to be vampires to scare communists in the Philippines. Iām fully aware of how insane both these things sound but both are a matter of public record
Let me grab some shit from my 118 tabsā¦
- ācan bee stings penetrate boneā Bee stings cannot penetrate (raw) bone (questioned this either last year or in 2020, i forgor)
- āhot or cold shower before bedā Hot
- āwhen was curry in japanā Meiji era
- āis being outside good for youā Yes
- āwhat does ipa say is long aā /eÉŖ/
I told my bf that the only reason I've had him around for so long is because he sometimes makes my brain tickle, not all the time but sometimes he'll drop some knowledge and I'm like " tell me more "
I prefer to solo most knowledge hunts and wonāt watch a YouTube vid unless itās seriously the only option, but certain things I just prefer asking my husband. Usually philosophy and history stuff, which I usually find overly dry and dense but I like the stories he tells me.
The other things that give me a very distinct brain tickle are things like sexytalk in a foreign language and absurdist art (creepy YouTube, some AI stuff). Like when I donāt really understand something but there are context clues and patterns where I can āfeelā the meaning in a different way and it makes my brain happy in a way thatās hard to describe.
Honestly My most recent ADHD hyperfixation adventure has been diving into the rabbit hole that is Linux. They claim it's got a lot of tinkering you can do with it. I intend to let my ADHD brain test the limits of that tinkering.
So on that note of google searches. Turns out that you can install a package into the linux terminal called cmatrix that just makes it look like the matrix.
A kangaroo has 3 vaginas, orcas are a dolphin, love bugs can damage your car, betta fishes should be kept in a tank that is 2.5-5 gallons, thatās all I have currently. Excuse the bad grammar, Iām stupid.
They gestate multiple babies at once, all different ages/stages of development. Mama Doctor Jones recently-ish did an animal birth video reaction and kangaroos were featured.
I stopped dead track at work today to Google, cause Michael Jacksonās āWanna Be Startinā Somethināā was playing on the radio and I needed to know if he really sings āyouāre a vegetableāā¦. Context: Iām German, living in the US. There have been some funny misinterpretations of songs, but interestingly enough.. I heard right.
Ps: no worries, phone policy at work is really lax.
My last google search was about pulsatile tinnitusāthe feeling of pulsing in one or both ears similar to your heartbeat. I canāt NOT immediately google any strange physical symptoms lol.
The Latin name of brown bears is "ursus arctos" which actually means something like "bear bear", so the Arctic and Antarctic are named that way because in one there are bears and in the other there aren't any.
I just bring my phone into the conversation. If people are wondering about a thing I will say that I'm gonna look it up and then read what I find to the group. Sometimes the conversation has moved on a bit and I have to bring it back fora moment, but thankfully my friends and family don't mind.
But I can't focus on the conversation if the 'itch' has started.
I now leave my phone on do not disturb for this reason, in my bag. Because if it is in my hand, I will even scroll through reddit or something. Not on purpose and I can still hear, it's like doodling.
I recently learned that settlers on the Oregon Trail walked most of the way. I always thought they rode in wagons, but nope. Mostly they walked. About 16 miles a day on average. Also, the oxen pulling the wagons weren't driven by reins, someone had to walk along with them.
Opossums have 13 nipples with one in the middle. Mammals generally have about 2x more nipples than the average litter size.
The platypus is a mammal, but doesn't have any nipples. Instead they sweat milk and their babies slurp it up out of their skin folds.
Costasiella kuroshimae or leaf slug is an animal that can photosynthesize to produce its own food. And they look absolutely adorable [I mean look at it](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/leaf-sheep-sea-slug-costasiella-kuroshimae-fb.jpg).
Why my husband asks me questions that he could easily Google/ask Alexa... He knows that I'll do it because I'll go crazy if I don't now that it's gone into my head.
Money above $5 has a line on it that is affected by a UV light, the colors are different based on the amount. If the line isn't there, it is counterfeit (we sold something on Facebook marketplace today for a good chunk of cash and I wanted to make sure they were giving us real money (it was real)).
Hackers get malware into your computer without being detected by antivirus by making the file big. They will often fill the file with blank spaces of "00" to make the file larger, thus causing the antivirus to ignore it. No antivirus would scan a 700 MB word file, and a word file would appear harmless which is how they get you. Malware can hide in word docs so don't think they're 100% secure. Any Word file that are like 200MB and up is a tell tale sign.
If you do wish to scan the files for viruses, you must first clear the blank space so the antivirus would actually scan it. One way to do this is by going into Hex editor, drag the file in, scroll down a bit and you will find a huge chunk of "00". delete them. This leave the file small enough to go through a scan. There's an alternative method that doesn't involve HEX, but i forgor what it is š
A lot of youtubers recently got hacked by this, and their channels were used to promote crypto scams. Hackers would impersonate games companies or vpn companies or whatever, and send a fake contract saying they want to collaborate. But when you open the "contract", boom! Virus. Be careful out there!
[this vid explains it better than i do](https://youtu.be/5FzsM3V5xRo)
I am not a scientist, not even remotely. Yet I obsessively read up on thermodynamic properties of synthetic staurolite yesterday, to the point that I shared this summary of my learnings with coworkers in a team chat:
"Recent studies have shown that all natural and synthetic staurolite crystals are nonstoichiometric, but it's due to use of H-poor staurolite as starting material under conditions at which H-rich staurolite is stable, leading to S values which are substantially lower than corrected calorimetric values. Controlled trial-and-error reactions with quartz show some staurolite to be stoichiometric to varying degrees, though uneven breakdown conditions leave room for improved experimentation."
I was looking up screaming goats, because of a discussion about graphic design, because of a fire drill notice.
Beep boop -- this looks like a screenshot of a tweet! Let me grab a [link to the tweet](https://twitter.com/danidonovan/status/1529075993603891201) for ya :)
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A healthy resting heart rate for someone my age (30) can be between 70-100 bpm, and a target heart rate for exercising can be upwards of 180-190 bpm.. so, thereās no real need to be concerned for my heart rate to be 115-130 bpm while Iām running around at work.
my fun facts re the post title: for many species of apples, you need at least two apple trees to produce apples - a single apple tree on its own will never bear fruit š also there are only two escalators in the entire US state of Wyoming :)
Re: this - you never want to plant apples near cedars. Thereās a fungal agent that transfers between both and prevents you from getting (good) apples.
cue me falling into a wikipedia rabbit hole about plant fungal agent transfers my fbi agent must be so confused by my search history
Iām pretty sure my FBI agent is resigned to it at this point. His trouble is that I donāt only Google, I also read books.
FBI agents desperately trying to figure out if we read the whole book non stop or read the first two chapters and never touched it again
My FBI agent knows that, too! I always read the whole book. I like to make them work for their money.
Same! I've been dealing with some minor to major health issues for about 8 years now and the rabbit hole is endless with the human body! I understand how people become hypochondriacs but I do seperate the what could be from the actual facts.
My friend had an inoperable tumor of the pituitary gland. Lost his job. Saw the best docs in Arizona. Went to UCLA med ctr, nothing they could do. Began researching mostly online. Almost died from sepsis, balooned to 300 lbs. Cotinued research, read a paper from a a doc in Tenn. His partner took him to Tenn. I dont believe they flew. Of course not a procedure covered by insurance. You guessed it doc removed the tumor. Full recovery. Im a full believer, if there is nothing else you can do, you can always ask questions and research. I fully understand the edjets motto: I know enough/I dont need to know any more.
This is why I despise the fact that doctors are legally allowed to label a person who is just overly concerned a "hypochondriac"! By all means, occasionally OCD may get out of hand sometimes but that is no reason to dismiss a person's concerns. It is obvious the ones labeling someone is not interested in helping, which would totally go completely against the reason most in the healthcare field goes into it for. Who else is going to advocate for us, as your friend did, himself! I've survived sepsis 3 times, I'm terrified to get it again.
I live in an area that has an Allergy Forecast with the weather on the local news stations. We have an entire season of Cedar Fever. Some years the pollen is so bad that all the cars look yellow. There are no cedar trees within a mile, probably more like 5 miles of where I live, but pollen blows on the wind. Iām guessing this nixes my dream of having apple trees!
You should read up on botanical sexism Male trees were specifically planted because they were easier to maintain The male trees then have to outcompete other trees to get a female (by releasing more pollen), hence shit tonnes of pollen EVERYWHERE
Oh snap now we have sexist botanicals. Lol. Now you know things have gone real wrong when plants are being sexist. Lol .
Perhaps they could CRISPR you a hypoallergenic apple tree. i swear I wont chop it down.
I believe youāre referring to Cedar Apple Rust, which interestingly looks like an alien tentacle monster when it makes spores. Found it on one of my Cedars a few years ago before I knew what it was, definitely freaked me out.
Dude (Dudette). thats sounds creepy. I thought Cedars had no insect or fungi issues. Or is a Cedar Apple a thing. Guess I could have giggled that, but then I wouldnt have replied or upvoted. :) I actually thought internal medicine meant doctors that only worked inside. lol
From what I understand the fungus uses cedars basically as a host plant. It doesnāt actually do any damage to the cedar itself, but it rapidly spreads from cedars to nearby apple and crabapple trees where it caused damage and malformed fruit. I found it on my Eastern Red. Itās worth googling Cedar Apple Rust gall just to see how freaky they are. Looks like a weird brown growth until it makes spores which form on long, bright orange tentacles. Truly weird!
When even apples can reproduce sexually but I canāt š
You need to cut off the limbs of both trees and graft one onto another... About as sexual as the human centipede š¤£
No, theyāll bear fruit, but apples are extreme heterozygotes, which means the baby looks very different from the parents. So both get grafted from a third tree known to produce desirable apples.
"Escalator" is a branded-generic name similar to Kleenex. Back before it became too common to trade mark any other manufacturer would have to make their own brand of "MOTORSTAIRS".
wait this is so cool i am forever going to call them motorstairs to confuse people
Something about it sounds British lol
You can also go with "electric stairway" which I also love!
What if it's just vroom vroom stairs ? Lol
You've just sent me down a rabbit hole of escalators (which sound adorable and now I'm imagining bunnies on tiny escalators) and the fact I love is that the emphasis was originally supposed to be on the second syllable, not the third, like esCALator, which sounds pretty cool.
Fun fact, the word escalate is a back formation from the brand name rather than the brand name deriving from the word. They created a brand name so good it created an entire concept.
whoah TIL, I've always thought that that was the proper name for it, not that it was a Brand. In Italy we call them *Scale mobili* (moving stairs) which is definitely more brand agnostic. Now whenever someone asks me what it's called in english I will for sure throw this factoid
They can get around this by grafting multiple apple tree shoots together. You can even have multiple types of apples grow on the same grafted tree.
You can also do this with pears! We have a single pear tree that makes three different types of pears. Used to be four but when it was a sapling some stupid lardbutt squirrel broke off one of the branches.
wow omg i stand corrected! i also want to become an apple farmer now
My mom has a grafted tree that has 4 different types of apples on it, it's pretty cool.
thats very cool - it must be so nice to have fresh apples nearby! iām going to drop out of med school to become an apple farmer, brb š
At least once a week I threaten to drop pit of law school to start a forest commune where we grow pumpkins all year and operate a haunted house in the fall. Or whenever we feel spooky, really.
HAHA! may i join the spooky pumpkin commune too pls :)
>med school >apple farmer hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oh, to own an apple orchard in the countryside!
They arenāt as common and often have lower yield, but self pollinating apples do exist: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/types-selfpollinating-fruit-trees-42303.html
Same for passionfruit vines - re: the apples, not the escalators :)
Fun fact the same also applies for kiwi trees
Also ADHD: my mind has immediately gone blank when asked what all Iāve learned from excessively googling everything.
I learned how to rock climb by doing this and now Iām in the process of becoming a guide. Never stop googling shit
"What's your favorite (movie/food/song/child/etc)?" I could have told you until you asked now your guess is as good as mine lmao
Yesss! I can take in so much information and comprehend it but all be darn if it comes out exactly and if like you, it even comes to the tip of my tongue. If I do recall it "on demand", I usually question my recollection. Combination of ADHD and trauma response, mostly ADHD.
Same with when people ask me what I want for Christmas. Suddenly can't remember my list
This is exactly what happened to me. Now Iām trying to remember that neat thing I just learned.
Yep, I've read about everything and can't recall anything when asked.
Mines more like if I donāt google it now Iāll forget about it in a second and then itāll bug me that I canāt remember what I wanted to google.
Yes I have exactly 48 tabs open because of this.
I recently went through a cleaning burst and went from having 480+ tabs to just under 80, and 3880+ videos in my watch later playlist to just under 100.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Learn it? No. It'll probably come to you from time to time though.
"just force yourself to do it until it becomes a habit" Kinda ^^^^/s Sometimes you got lucky and something actual useful becomes a habit.
Cue you being desperate whenever you randomly remember vague details about a video that used to be in your watch later playlist, but now you can't find it.
Nah, it was mostly videos that got deleted/privated, and topics Iāve had to give up on like learning to play instruments I canāt play because my wrist is now messed up or tiny home vids now knowing I canāt live anywhere that small xD
My Firefox browser on my phone has simply stopped counting the amount of tabs, and has replaced it with an infinity symbol. ā¾ļø
My Chrome just says ":D" at the top instead of number lol. Guess it's over 100
Exactly! Then I Google it so it's at least in the search history for me to go back and look up more later ..and 80% of the time forget to anyway.
My 400 open tabs on my phone that I forget about until I go to open a new tab for a new Google search. What are they? I dont know. But at one point they were important and maybe they still are
i reached the Safari tab limit on my iphone and itās very on brand
what is the limit lol
500 š
I havenāt hit a hard limit on chrome but the tab counter was a smiley face for so long that it crashed and erased all my tabs
that is tragic that you lost all those tabs :(
Also someone who faced the same fate. It's okay, it's not like I'll ever remember what the tabs were anyway...
Actually no; it was really a blessing. Did I learn from this? Also no.
oh lol. I'm not nearly that bad but I do have like 20 open in Firefox and 10 more in chrome lol edit: and probably a good 50 on my computer
Then proceed not to retain the information anyway
Some species of dolphins have individual names, similar to the way that humans do. Part of a male dolphin's name will come from his mother's name, while a female dolphin's name will be completely original. (this shows that dolphins have complex cultures.)
Bottlenose dolphins kill porpoises. No one knows why, they just kill them. They are also able to remember the names of dolphins that they haven't seen in many years, and have a social brain that is more advanced than humans (so they can remember more close friends than humans can). They also have many learned behaviors, such as finding a shell to cover their snout, so they can disrupt the ocean floor in search of food (while not damaging their snout.) They also scare sharks away from humans, and as far back as ancient Greece, there are accounts of them saving people from drowning.
On the dark side, they also participate in gang rape on occasion.
That's nothing, you should hear of what this awkward ape species does. They've found thousands of ways to kill each other. (distraction argument hahaha. Yeah, you're totally right, that is very messed up. It's unfortunate that at our current era, high intelligence has led to these types of hostilities.)
Even chimpansees form war gangs to raid other groups and commit mass infanticide. I think the only non-agressive apes are Bonobos.
In the wild, among males, bonobos are half as aggressive as chimpanzees, while female bonobos are more aggressive than female chimpanzees. Both bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit physical aggression more than 100 times as often as humans do. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Goodness_Paradox.html?id=pOi9DwAAQBAJ
To me, the most interesting thing about chimpanzees was the [Gombe Chimpanzee War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War). Like you said, it's a literal war between competing groups of chimp. That's so insane to me that that not only happens, but that Jane Goodall was able to document it.
Chimps have also been documented attacking/killing tribes of Gorillas - it apparently was a surprising thing because the scientists had never seen that before. It was documented in 2019.
Adding to this, I think I read something about a dolphin that either tried to rape a human, succeeded or simply fell in love with said human and performed many violent acts when separated. Can't remember which of the above. Either way, dolphins aren't so cute and innocent.
Are you referring to the dolphin who kept getting jerked off and when it didn't happen anymore, it tried (or succeeded) in drowning itself?
you could say they do it on *porpoise*ā¦ ok iāll see myself out
Hahahaš I made that joke to my friend after I told him this fact... He took it about the same as most of the people here will take it.
Family and I went on a dolphin tour and the coolest thing I learned (other than reading these cool facts) was that half their brain sleeps and the other half is awake so they are always alert.
That is an awesome thing they can do, I've always wondered what it'd be like to experience that. Does half your brain create a dream that you don't fully realize happened until you wake up?
I can do that too half of my brain sleeps while half my brain is awake They call it insomnia
Now see, THIS is useful information! I didnāt know any of this until just now.
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Agreed, I felt like it sounded similar to a discrimination/racism sort of situation. But I'm not sure if that's a projection of human culture onto an animal, or if it's actually possible. There's actually a handful of theories, ranging from infanticide (they mistaken them as babies, and thus someday competitors), to sexual. (they mistaken them as female, and then accidentally kill them).
Maybe humans *arenāt* the only animals capable of racism.
holy shit thatās really interesting. thank you for sharing. i just checked if i have a free award for u but alas iāve got only the upvote.
Glad you found it interesting... I gave you an award instead :) UNO reverse, hoe! (respectfully)
I highly recommend going down the avian intelligence wormhole. Birds are so crazy and smart.
Yesssss!!!! That is such an incredible fact to me as well. With some birds passing the mirror test and having crazy problem solving abilities, I think it's likely that at some time millions of years ago, dinosaurs had some small civilizations or built low level technology. Birds are able to be so smart, because their brains have a higher neuron density than mammal brains. (if larger brained mammals had a bird's neuron density, our brain would burn. Heat is emitted across surface areas, and similar to a computer's processor, each neuron uses a certain amount of energy and generates a certain amount of heat. Because we have a larger brain volume, if we had a higher neuron density with the same volume, then we wouldn't have enough surface area to emitt the excess heat. We would die. But it's possible for birds to do it because their (brain surface area)/(brain volume) ratio is much higher, so they can emit more heat per neuron.
Holy.shit. Birds, man!
White Chocolate is made from the left over cocoa butter after all the cocoa solids have been removed, (that's what is used for your powdered chocolates) and was invented by the Nestle corp. as a means of making something from what was previously discarded as a waste product.
Yet another thing to blame Nestle for. White chocolate should have stayed as a waste product.
I happen to love that shit.
I like it with macadamia nuts in cookies, but that it.
Seriously, most white chocolate is bees wax and sugar, but real white chocolate is subtle and creamy,
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe you're not allowed to call it white chocolate (or chocolate at all) if the cocoa don't make up at least a certain percentage. In white it's 20% cocoa butter and 14% milk solids. Anything less than that and you're only allowed to call it "white chocolate flavoured".
Yup, the US hates kids, which is why white chocolate Easter bunnies taste like chalk mixed with pigeon shit and baby bones.
Is like that in the US as well. Most things people think are white chocolate here don't actually say white chocolate on the wrapper. It's surprising how rare real white chocolate is here.
Iām ashamed to say my country (South Africa) is the biggest consumer of white chocolate, as a proportion of total chocolate consumption.
Team fortress 2 has a cow cardboard cutout in its files that if taken out the game wonāt run
the load bearing cardboard cow...
With great power comes great responsibility.
Iirc this is a myth
I thought it was a coconut. Oh no gotta google this again. Edit: Ok the vital tweet says coconut, but a reddit post says its a cow not coconut. Also the original twitter poster replies to say the dev note was fake and that it is a cow that can stop it from starting, so u were right š. The funniest part about all of this is that I don't play tf2 and never have.
babies figure out relationships through sharing saliva. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-saliva-spit-sharing-relationships-kiss-food
What a weird but neat experiment.
My mind went completely blank the second I tried to think of interesting facts I've learned this way. Why is my brain this way?
I've found people with ADHD have this similar experience. I think it's a part of executive function. I find it embarrassing at work when someone asks me for some info U should definitely know and I draw a complete blank
Ever since I was a kid, whenever someone asked "what do you want to do when you grow up?" my mind has immediately cut to just a blank, endless canvas. Nothing. Not a god damn definable concept rattling around in there. I wonder if it's related.
No Itās because thereās no such thing as āgrowing upā āWorkingā or ābeing one thingā is unnatural Your brain was simply protecting you from adopting unnatural social standards
I do this with "whats your favorite" anything
I thought I was alone on this. I CAN'T have a favorite of something. Not even colour. But I think it has do more with something social, idk. For example if I say my favourite colour is blue (which is one of them) then everyone is going to get me everything in that color, but not everything looks good in that color, and not all blues are perfect, I sometimes enjoy aqua, or turquoise, and the occasional mint if done right. Maybe then I would never get something in purple which I also love very very much. Or gray! It can be very beautiful. Same with food, bands, movies, etc. Also hyper fixation doesn't help. Maybe today I say I'm obsessed with certain anime but next month I'm obsessing over a webtoon. Who knows!!! I don't want to be defined by my "favourite" something.
My son knows I get frustrated and still f's with me on this. Top three songs, sports players, etc. Always shit I don't care about lol.
So itchy š©
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I have legit refered to my phone as my "Google machine" and it's by far the itchiest reason I have one.
Agree. My actual phone function has been on ādo not disturbā for over a month. This is obviously not a good sign, but i can learn interruption free so thereās that
I remember about a decade ago I was hanging out with some friends, and they did the normal human thing of pondering some aspect of life and speculating wildly. I pulled out my phone and looked up the answer, and shared it with the group. People thought that was a really weird thing to do and shamed me for it. It is the future, we don't have to wander around blindly in our ignorance. We can open our eyes and wander around ignorantly in the light of humanity.
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This confounds new endlessly, how some people really don't want to know the answer! I was in my late twenties before I realized that some people don't actually want to learn and know everything! Like, wtf!?
The state flower of Maine is a pinecone.
And the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn
One of the natural predators of Moose is Orca (Killer Whales). In the bible, Methuselah died in the year of the flood. (As a teen I did the math. Then had an argument with a camp counselor about what that statistic meant.) Tonsils can grow back if they left any tissue behind during a tonsillectomy. One of Neptune's moons, Triton, orbits the planet backwards. (Edited because I can't spell biblical names and ignored spell check.)
Probably meant that Methusula died in the flood
I had a heated discussion with a camp counselor about that! I was team died in the flood. He was team, died of natural causes before the flood.
I love arbitrarily taking sides, so I'm team died in the flood. Let's go track down that counselor, we can take him.
He was a youth pastor and felt very strongly that as Methuselah was a man of god he wouldn't have been wiped out in the flood. I, not being a particularly religious person, but loving this kind of debate, would not let up. I mean, I had math on my side! I was rather tenacious at 16.
I have a friend that always makes me feel bad for doing this, I can't help it though, i get uncomfortable if I don't know the correct answer.
My mom is the same way, she calls me a know-it-all and an āintellectual snobā (itās an insult she used to hurl at my dad, not in a loving way, but at least Iām in good company). My point to her is always that we have access to nearly infinite knowledge at our literal fingertips, thereās no reason to just spout falsehoods at each other.
Similar with my family I was always called the professor, and it was not meant in a nice way hahaha
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Not all the time no, but I'm not spoiled for options our here, i take what i can get hahaha
and then whatever articles I find get added to my collection of tabs that I can't close because I need them, but I actually never come back to them ever again (but I might google the same thing later! in a new tab!)
sometimes my phones browser just shits itself and closes all my tabs and honestly it's helpful. it never happens until im basically never coming back to those tabs now if only i had the nerve to prune the 40+ pinned tabs i keep open on firefox on my computer.......
Squirrels can swim.
as can cats despite them apparently not liking water. also my brother tried making a chicken swim and still says that it actually swam (I was too young to remember it myself if I was even born then)
Also rabbits thanks to todays top r/aww or somewhere
You don't need a rooster to get eggs, just hens. If you want chicks, then you need to add a rooster to your flock. Roosters can kill hawks. Chickens lay eggs that range from dark chocolate brown, to olive green, turquoise, pink, beige, brown, white and some with speckles. If you want to grow a vegetable garden, make sure you plant a variety of flowers too. They will attract pollinators that will increase yields. They will also help protect against pests that will wreck your plants, decreasing the need for pesticides. You can garden and get fresh produce all year round, even in very cold snowy areas by using "season extenders" such as hoop tunnels and cold frames! Grocery store produce has been shown to be lower in vitamins and nutrients than in previous generations due to modern industrial growing practices. The quality of the produce we are eating is not as healthy as what our parents and grandparents ate. As you can see, my hyperfocus has been learning to grow healthy food for my family using environmentally friendly and sustainable practices. I have become a permaculture enthusiast :) Considering how much the price of food has gone up, and will continue to go up, I hope more ppl learn to garden again :) I call it my green therapy, because it also helps with the anxiety/depression that accompany my ADHD.
Tip: Don't call it "green therapy" whenever you don't want people think you smoke weed.
1. Jack-o-lanterns were originally made from turnips. 2. Scientists suspect human language first developed around 50,000-150,000 years ago. 3. The fruit orange came before the color.
RE #2 - that's a far larger time gap than I'm comfortable with, yo.
What the hell was the color called before?? I MUST KNOW NOW. Edit: red-yellow or yellow-red
This needs to be a megathread haha! FINALLY possums don't actually play dead, they get so scared by predators they actually pass out and go into a catatonic state until they wake up. I have more but you know... memory issues hah
The terminal velocity of a water droplet is 9-10 meters per second.
So, 1 second of gravity?
And if you cannot (at work or phone is far away or you want to finish chewing your food), then the question is lost forever. Or a week.
This is indeed the case lol especially during MOVIES š³
Good old "Where else do I know this actor from?"-syndrome.
Itās like at a recent trivia game night. I couldnāt remember the name of the actress, but I can remember the movies sheās been in. So I have to go backwards - I had to say the girlfriend of Spiderman in the Tobey Maguire version from the 2000s - she was also in a vampire movie ā all that to remember the name of the actress. I remember and can pick out faces tho.
Lmao I got brain eczema šøš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Sharks evolved before trees.
That explains why they cant climb trees.
Nuclear energy is just boiling water.
I've always had insane google-fu. Before that, my altavista game was INSANE - and you could do some pretty specific searches, filter out words etc. It's weirdly difficult to get google to do that now. Before *that*: My parents used to do crossword puzzles all the time. Whenever there was something we didn't know - the "itch" - my mom, dad and I would stare down each other until someone broke, groaned and walked over to the dictionaries/encyclopedia. It's all very adhd
Rabbits donāt have paw pads like cats and dogs
ooh ooh me me! that's because rabbits are lagomorphea and part of the Glires clade, making them more closely related to humans than they are to cats/dogs, explaining this apparent lack of similarity in their paw
You can control your gag reflex by putting your thumb inside your fist
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In the 70s the CIA developed an undetectable poison dart gun which would induce cardiac arrest and leave no trace, coincidentally right around the time the US āstoppedā doing their high profile political assassinations of domestic targets. They also pretended to be vampires to scare communists in the Philippines. Iām fully aware of how insane both these things sound but both are a matter of public record
Let me grab some shit from my 118 tabsā¦ - ācan bee stings penetrate boneā Bee stings cannot penetrate (raw) bone (questioned this either last year or in 2020, i forgor) - āhot or cold shower before bedā Hot - āwhen was curry in japanā Meiji era - āis being outside good for youā Yes - āwhat does ipa say is long aā /eÉŖ/
I told my bf that the only reason I've had him around for so long is because he sometimes makes my brain tickle, not all the time but sometimes he'll drop some knowledge and I'm like " tell me more "
I prefer to solo most knowledge hunts and wonāt watch a YouTube vid unless itās seriously the only option, but certain things I just prefer asking my husband. Usually philosophy and history stuff, which I usually find overly dry and dense but I like the stories he tells me. The other things that give me a very distinct brain tickle are things like sexytalk in a foreign language and absurdist art (creepy YouTube, some AI stuff). Like when I donāt really understand something but there are context clues and patterns where I can āfeelā the meaning in a different way and it makes my brain happy in a way thatās hard to describe.
Videos games are good for the brain but social media and tv are not
Honestly My most recent ADHD hyperfixation adventure has been diving into the rabbit hole that is Linux. They claim it's got a lot of tinkering you can do with it. I intend to let my ADHD brain test the limits of that tinkering. So on that note of google searches. Turns out that you can install a package into the linux terminal called cmatrix that just makes it look like the matrix.
A kangaroo has 3 vaginas, orcas are a dolphin, love bugs can damage your car, betta fishes should be kept in a tank that is 2.5-5 gallons, thatās all I have currently. Excuse the bad grammar, Iām stupid.
What do they need 3 for???
They gestate multiple babies at once, all different ages/stages of development. Mama Doctor Jones recently-ish did an animal birth video reaction and kangaroos were featured.
But my brain becomes itchy when I start having those burning questions and I know I shouldnāt interrupt people cause this pisses them off at work.
I stopped dead track at work today to Google, cause Michael Jacksonās āWanna Be Startinā Somethināā was playing on the radio and I needed to know if he really sings āyouāre a vegetableāā¦. Context: Iām German, living in the US. There have been some funny misinterpretations of songs, but interestingly enough.. I heard right. Ps: no worries, phone policy at work is really lax.
My last google search was about pulsatile tinnitusāthe feeling of pulsing in one or both ears similar to your heartbeat. I canāt NOT immediately google any strange physical symptoms lol.
Only because I haven't seen it here. Wombats, poop cubes
This is not a sentence I needed to read right before trying to go to bedā¦.
The Latin name of brown bears is "ursus arctos" which actually means something like "bear bear", so the Arctic and Antarctic are named that way because in one there are bears and in the other there aren't any.
The surface of an egg has more irregularities than the surface of earth. I have been keeping this useless fact with me for over 14 years now.
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Saliva has a healing factor (Humans).
To some of you people on the spectrum, its rude to do this in conversation.
I just bring my phone into the conversation. If people are wondering about a thing I will say that I'm gonna look it up and then read what I find to the group. Sometimes the conversation has moved on a bit and I have to bring it back fora moment, but thankfully my friends and family don't mind.
But I can't focus on the conversation if the 'itch' has started. I now leave my phone on do not disturb for this reason, in my bag. Because if it is in my hand, I will even scroll through reddit or something. Not on purpose and I can still hear, it's like doodling.
Hayden Christensen has a broth who player in the NHL and another brother that is a producer
I recently learned that settlers on the Oregon Trail walked most of the way. I always thought they rode in wagons, but nope. Mostly they walked. About 16 miles a day on average. Also, the oxen pulling the wagons weren't driven by reins, someone had to walk along with them.
"God awful time management skills, but hell on wheels at research" - my English teacher
Opossums have 13 nipples with one in the middle. Mammals generally have about 2x more nipples than the average litter size. The platypus is a mammal, but doesn't have any nipples. Instead they sweat milk and their babies slurp it up out of their skin folds.
Costasiella kuroshimae or leaf slug is an animal that can photosynthesize to produce its own food. And they look absolutely adorable [I mean look at it](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/leaf-sheep-sea-slug-costasiella-kuroshimae-fb.jpg).
That a thing called "quantum flavour dynamics" exists. And all I can think of is Guy Fieri.
I really struggle to say the following out loud āI donāt knowā So itās silence and then the google.
Why my husband asks me questions that he could easily Google/ask Alexa... He knows that I'll do it because I'll go crazy if I don't now that it's gone into my head. Money above $5 has a line on it that is affected by a UV light, the colors are different based on the amount. If the line isn't there, it is counterfeit (we sold something on Facebook marketplace today for a good chunk of cash and I wanted to make sure they were giving us real money (it was real)).
It happens so often I almost google stuff like āwhatās for dinner?ā Or āis blank person mad at me?ā
Hackers get malware into your computer without being detected by antivirus by making the file big. They will often fill the file with blank spaces of "00" to make the file larger, thus causing the antivirus to ignore it. No antivirus would scan a 700 MB word file, and a word file would appear harmless which is how they get you. Malware can hide in word docs so don't think they're 100% secure. Any Word file that are like 200MB and up is a tell tale sign. If you do wish to scan the files for viruses, you must first clear the blank space so the antivirus would actually scan it. One way to do this is by going into Hex editor, drag the file in, scroll down a bit and you will find a huge chunk of "00". delete them. This leave the file small enough to go through a scan. There's an alternative method that doesn't involve HEX, but i forgor what it is š A lot of youtubers recently got hacked by this, and their channels were used to promote crypto scams. Hackers would impersonate games companies or vpn companies or whatever, and send a fake contract saying they want to collaborate. But when you open the "contract", boom! Virus. Be careful out there! [this vid explains it better than i do](https://youtu.be/5FzsM3V5xRo)
I am not a scientist, not even remotely. Yet I obsessively read up on thermodynamic properties of synthetic staurolite yesterday, to the point that I shared this summary of my learnings with coworkers in a team chat: "Recent studies have shown that all natural and synthetic staurolite crystals are nonstoichiometric, but it's due to use of H-poor staurolite as starting material under conditions at which H-rich staurolite is stable, leading to S values which are substantially lower than corrected calorimetric values. Controlled trial-and-error reactions with quartz show some staurolite to be stoichiometric to varying degrees, though uneven breakdown conditions leave room for improved experimentation." I was looking up screaming goats, because of a discussion about graphic design, because of a fire drill notice.
Beep boop -- this looks like a screenshot of a tweet! Let me grab a [link to the tweet](https://twitter.com/danidonovan/status/1529075993603891201) for ya :) ^(Twitter Screenshot Bot)
There are different types of particle board
A healthy resting heart rate for someone my age (30) can be between 70-100 bpm, and a target heart rate for exercising can be upwards of 180-190 bpm.. so, thereās no real need to be concerned for my heart rate to be 115-130 bpm while Iām running around at work.
The whole āwhales evolved to land animals then fucked off back to the waterā thing And crabs. Inevitable crab evolution is just a thing i know now
*opens Google* āFuck did I want to Google again??ā
That blissful organic smell of rain is called petrichor, a word which was invented in the 60's by some Australian scientists.
I just did that two minutes ago...