Quoted from Mr68:You forgot alcohol.
Lol
This is both the earliest known photo of Paris AND the earliest known photo of a human. Zoom into the lower-left and observe the fellow standing on the street corner apparently getting a shoe shine; there were undoubtedly scores of other people present, but he was the only one that remained still enough to be captured by the long-exposure shot. (circa 1839, 10-minute exposure daguerreotype):
D8A0FBEB-02C5-494D-9AE5-202F1C302D5D (resized).jpegHippos fart through their mouths because their stomachs are at the front of their bodies. It also means that hippo sounds are actually farting sounds.
Wasn't talking about noise generated by crapping.
LTG : )
Quoted from Oaken:Turtles breathe through their butts.
Quoted from LTG:Hippos fart through their mouths.
This seems like that start some animal centipede horror film.
Floyd Patterson was the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion to win the title twice in his career. Muhammad Ali, the first to win it three times.
Quoted from Eightball88:Ok let me try:
Hit
Walk
Hit by pitch
Error
Dropped third strike
Catcher’s interference
Fielder’s choice
Infield fly rule?
Balk?
Fielder’s interference?
Ok those last three were guesses....
I WAS BORN ON THIRD BASE
Although it might sound a little strange, the word for an individual piece of spaghetti is spaghetto. The same goes for a single piece of confetti, which is confetto, as well as a single piece of graffiti, which is graffito, according to Merriam-Webster.
Quoted from PopBumperPete:owls dont have bum-holes
they poop out of their mouths
Sorry, that is not true. They regurgitate much of what they swallow, but they do poop normally.
Quoted from BeaglePuss:While it’s a famous palindrome, it’s nowhere near the longest. A palindrome sentence could be infinitely long for that matter.
OK...show me a longer palindrome.
Quoted from MajorDrainer:OK...show me a longer palindrome.
I attached a palindrome poem that’s far longer, but there are countless examples (literally) longer than what you posted. There’s an infinite number of nonsensical-words you could piece together to create long palindrome sentences.
C2E36EE0-0AB7-4446-AAC0-19D74C91B54B (resized).jpegThere’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name.
Can you guess the answer to this random fact? You’ll find a Z (Arizona), a J (New Jersey), and even two X’s (New Mexico and Texas)—but not a single Q.
Quoted from PopBumperPete:owls dont have bum-holes
they poop out of their mouths
Technically, they have a cloaca which excretes waste and Uric acid. Essentially pee and poop together. Their eggs also come out of the cloaca. What they can’t digest like bones and feathers, their gizzard compacts and they basically throw up. Since poop is digested food, they do not poop out of their mouths.
Quoted from Mudflaps:Las Vegas is further west than Los Angeles
Edit: Yes, it’s Reno, not Las Vegas. Never said I was smart!
Reno is also Closer to L.A. than San Francisco is (about 35 miles, in a straight line)
Quoted from MajorDrainer:OK...show me a longer palindrome.
I always liked:
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!
90% give or take of the cells in and on our body are not ours but rather things living on and in us.
Air molecules at room temperature are banging off each other at something in the vicinity of 800 mph.
Quoted from RWH:Did you know pinside has 5.5 Trolls per 100 members.
Seems way low. Did you mean every troll has 5.5 accounts?
Peanuts aren’t technically nuts
They’re legumes.
According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it’s “a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel.” That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios aren’t nuts either. They’re seeds.
If intelligent life on some inhabitable planet that is located 100 light years away from earth created a super powerful telescope and were watching us right now at this moment, they would be seeing what was going on May 13, 1920 (since they are 100 light years away).
(at least I think that is right)
Quoted from pin2d:If intelligent life on some inhabitable planet that is located 100 light years away from earth created a super powerful telescope and were watching us right now at this moment, they would be seeing what was going on May 13, 1920 (since they are 100 light years away).
(at least I think that is right)
I just closed my curtains.
Quoted from Mr68:I just closed my curtains.
Good idea in case they're still watching on May 13, 2120.
Quoted from Daditude:Peanuts aren’t technically nuts
They’re legumes.
According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it’s “a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel.” That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios aren’t nuts either. They’re seeds.
But how is a seed not a "fruit or seed"?
Another fun fact, people who argue whether something is a fruit or vegetable are tools. A vegetable is anything edible from vegetation, i.e. plants. All fruits are vegetables.
The largest gas station in the world is the Buc-ee's Station in New Braunfels, Texas, with 68,000 square feet of retail sales space. The gas Station is located on Interstate highway 35, opened in 1982.
Quoted from pin2d:If intelligent life on some inhabitable planet that is located 100 light years away from earth created a super powerful telescope and were watching us right now at this moment, they would be seeing what was going on May 13, 1920 (since they are 100 light years away).
(at least I think that is right)
And if you leave Earth now to visit the telescope traveling at the speed of light, in 100 years you can watch your ancestors.
Quoted from Jgaltr56:And if you leave Earth now to visit the telescope traveling at the speed of light, in 100 years you can watch your ancestors.
Or would you be watching yourself in current day?
Scaphism was a method of execution where a victim was trapped between two boats with his head, hands, and feet outside, force-fed milk and honey and then covered with the same, and left exposed in the sun to be tortured and eaten by insects and vermin. Men could last a couple of weeks before expiring, and the milk and honey treatments were repeated every day.
The first image ever transmitted via the technology that would become television was a simple straight line.
The very first continuously broadcast television image was that of a 13-inch tall paper mache model of Felix the Cat. Engineers had to watch transmission quality in those formative days and constantly adjust it to keep the picture as sharp as they could. Because nobody wanted to sit for hours on camera under the hot studio lights, they went with a model of Felix - because he also just so happened to be the perfect color combination: black and white.
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