No.74495
I didn't read about it, but I think every bad odor associated with people isn't actually produced by us, but instead by bacteria and other microbes in or on us. I can't think of an exception.
Is that fun?
No.74497
>>74496Never played the game but I love the soundtrack
No.74500
>>74497I got into it simply because of how much I loved the music and 90's aesthetic and bumbling around the game untranslated I would say it's a really fun time it's no hidden master piece for instance the driving feels a bit off sometimes and the difficulty can be brutal but it's still a hell of a fun time.
No.74503
>>74501I didn't find the study reference and some of the stuff on google isn't very convincing. Most of it boils down to the same thing, you can tell what choice a person will make X seconds before the are aware they made the choice. I don't think that really rules out "free will" or that even it's fair to say "you" and "your brain" are different entities. It could be something like; one part of "you" makes the decision, on part tells the relevant parts of the body what to do, one part contextualizes and rationalizes the decision, and one part stores the decision made and it's associations. "You"/"Your brain" is the sum of these parts and not an individual part.
No.74506
No Kunyomi starts ever with a R. Yesterday I stumbled about this when I tried playing shiritori.
No.74511
>>74491The guy who shot the dad of Nabokov (author of Lolita) was the leader of the NORM
No.74513
>>74511Have that book but am yet to read it... is it good?
No.74514
>>74513Yes. Lolita is one of the modern greats.
No.74515
>>74512You wouldn't start a word with it, same goes for 人.
No.74516
>>74515with ri coming at the end.
No.75425
The average heart rate for a feline is roughly 140-220 bpm.
No.75476
That makes sense considering the properties of Bronze.
No.75515
some people can lick their elbow
No.75519
>>75515do not believe his lies! I fell for this once in middle school, never again!
but it is true that you can lick your own nose if you try hard enough
No.75527
fun fact!!!!! your gay
No.75670
It can be illegal to import gas masks due to ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), which can carry very harsh penalties such as jailtime and high fees.
No.75677
flaming hot cheetoes where made by the janitor who found the number for the ceos office in a contact book at the factory.
No.75697
>>75695How many people do the Japanese hold in prison anyways?
No.75701
>>75698What a modest number compared to America...
No.75718
>>75701doesn't mean their legal system is any less broken, they basically don't try to prosecute anyone if they aren't 100% sure they're guilty
No.75762
>>75695They also still have the death penalty and are one of the few countries in the world where there are more female murderers than male ones.
No.76135
Decided to watch Star Trek, and I caught Sulu saying "rice wine". I'm so used to hearing "sake", that that term caught me off guard. Anyways, onto the fact: rice wine, or sake, is in fact brewed more closely to beer than wine, so the term "rice wine" is actually a misnomer.
>>75761I know that I want to be that pillow, and that is a FACT!
No.76711
I learned recently that according to the German criminal code, unlike in many other countries I would assume, alongside the right to self defense, you have the right to defend your honor, which includes physical force.
No.76714
The Japanese people have one of the very highest life expectancies in the world but that is not so much due to their diets as it is due to their lack of drugs; their diets cause higher rates of cancers of the stomach, pancreas, liver, kidneys than in the population of the USA.
No.76716
>>76711but i heard germany passed a law unter covid that stripped the right of privacy under shelter (law enforcement can enter and search your home without a warrant)...
No.76778
the largest gathering of people ever recorded was a Hindu celebration in 2013 for the purpose of honoring their holy rivers
No.76806
>>76797thought you were talking about Rika, then I remember which thread this was
No.76821
>>76797yeah but they don't report when people die, for all we know anonymous could have died in the 70s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato?lang=en No.76959
>>76956>They after that theyMy hangover is showing...
Here is the first song to use
The Manual this trite rubbish was made under a week to show that most people don't know what good music is and it worked because it was a chart topper. If you listen closely you can hear Harry Enfield loadsamoney character as a sample which I think is their way of making fun of the listener.
No.77040
The enteric (GI tract) nervous system in humans consists of some 500 million neurons, which is about 2/3 as many as in the whole nervous system of a cat.
No.77066
Cats are in fact nearsighted, which is quite interesting since, as an ambush predator, you might have expected them to have good vision! They also can't see underneath their nose either.
No.77191
>>77188Is the manga much different than the games?
No.77193
>>77191It's similar but not to the point you need to play the games first to understand what's going on in all honest it's an alright series I feel the main appeal is reading something that takes place durning the Taishō period with an MC that collects demons like Pokemon battling in a "monster of the week" fashion which you don't see often.
No.77217
At the moment it costs $648,242.94 to buy every single game on Steam at full price.
https://steam.seewang.me/ No.77218
>>77217That's actually a lot less than I would have thought.
No.77219
>>77217if each game is ~30USD, then there are only 21,600 games on sale.
I thought there were more games in circulation, but I guess the certification process discriminates enough.
No.77220
>>77219>if each game is ~30USDThe average game is way less than that, it's mostly just the high-profile ones that are that expensive. .
Steam recently surpassed 50k games listed.
No.77243
>>77217having trouble reading that number
No.77244
>>77243Six hundred forty eight thousand, two hundred forty two and ninety four cents. Stop being European and using punctuation for your numbers wrong.
No.77824
just learned that kim jong il kidnapped some south korean director and his actress ex wife in the late 70s to film some movies I thought it was hilarious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee No.77835
Kangal dogs have a bite force of 743 PSI, to put that in perspective a Pitbull has a measly 350 PSI biteforce.
No.77890
Cats like to eat human earwax because they have far more cells for smelling than tasting, and are drawn to the scent of proteins, which earwax contains an abundance of. Similarly, dogs like to eat cat poop for the same reason: it smells to them of being high in protein.
No.77901
>>77890Dogs will eat their own shit, it doesn't even have to be a different animal's. Source: My lazy brother's preferred way of getting rid of the dog shit in his backyard was to throw it in a corner and when he did it the dog (a retarded German Shepherd) would always snap at it and try to catch it.
No.77961
Ishkur's guide to electronic music is..a...well guide to eletronic music! As well as an insight to how some sounds are made.
It originally was a flash based site until flash's death doom it but has now come back.
Sadly some of the more saucy descriptions of certain genres or artists was either toned down or removed, namely an ALL CAPS rants on Testio and how he ruined trance for everyone but the most brain dead of music Otaku.
https://music.ishkur.com/So if you want to be the next AFX weirdo or you want to make the next club dick banger for the boys to suck their candy sticks too (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pJfMAm_84w ) this guide has it for you!
No.77962
>>77961Cool site. I'm most interested in Synthwave stuff currently, so it was interesting to see that it's somehow within the lineage of Eurodisco, making it in some respect, a distant cousin of Eurobeat. Also the samples in time are really cool!
Cute Len too.
No.77964
>>77961That is indeed a very cool site. I really can't keep track of all these genres and I swear it's just all an elaborate prank and no one actually knows the difference between the 5,000 genres there are today (with 100 new ones declared every day).
I remember that I used to just say I liked "House" because of Daft Punk, but I don't know if their stuff post-Homework or whatever is still considered House.
So much easier to just say "video game and anime music"
No.77965
Oh, but I do think it's a little undiligigent to not break Synthwave at least into Synthwave and Dark Synth. Although I would broadly consider artists like Perturbator to be a Synthwave artist, they have a much darker tone than an artist like Waveshaper.
Regardless, I also think it much more plausible that Synthwave in it's current form originated out of, or at least drew a significant amount of inspiration from, French House, and Synthpop, while also drawing upon the affect and vibe of Tracker music (and also Rock, but that's not really "Electronic" is it :P). The draw from Spacesynth, in my opinion seems much more of a matter of convergent evolution, rather than direct lineage.
Waveshaper for comparison against Perturbator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLelplIhgLE No.78061
>>77962I'm more into the Jungle and Trance scene myself so to me I kept it simple; if the song uses Sawtooth Waves it's Synthwave.
>>77965 Has it quite right I would say.
>Cute Len too.Love Len.
>>77964You're not wrong there and actually - in some cases artists have been known to mess with music journalists as those are the ones making most of these genre terms IDM is a good example of that, the band Mindless Self-indulgence in an interview once called their style
Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk nowadays it's artists trolling journalists to see how many goofy terms they can get them to write about.
No.78089
>>77965this is like the 30th revival of 80es stuff in 20 years, might as well call it electro and sythpop like the rest
No.78317
ペンライト (Pen light) is the Japanese term for glow sticks.
No.78358
>Light pollution is excessive, misdirected, or obtrusive artificial (usually outdoor) light. Too much light pollution has consequences: it washes out starlight in the night sky, interferes with astronomical research, disrupts ecosystems, has adverse health effects and wastes energy.
You learn something new everyday, like another way that living in the city is bad for you.
No.78612
In 1952, China accused the United States military of spreading bacteria-laden insects and other objects during the Korean War by dropping them from P-51 fighters above rebel villages over North Korea. In all, the U.S. was accused of dropping ants, beetles, crickets, fleas, flies, grasshoppers, lice, springtails, and stoneflies.
No.79808
Potatoes are higher in potassium than bananas.
No.79811
Chair means ‘flesh’ in French.
No.79822
>>79821I think it's because omankos are slightly acidic, which helps kill off stray sperms or something. No idea. I'm no girl doctor.
No.79932
The time complexity of using bucket elimination to perform inference on a Bayesian network is exponential to 1 + the induced width of the graph
No.81484
bampu. They say the lion is the king of the jungle... but lions live in the savanna
No.81488
>>81485fun fact: I missed your thread and it was a coincidence!
No.81489
Cat whiskers grow as they gain weight. They also gain more whiskers as they age. Cats use their whiskers to help judge whether they're too wide to fit through a gap so that they don't enter somewhere and get stuck.
No.81493
Gold is more dense than lead
Osmium is even denser
However the densest substance know to man is Kodaka Hasegawa the protagonist of anime Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
No.81512
>>81485my gf miyu is so cute
No.82094
At the appropriate moment during Christmas Eve, the faggot must be burnt in a hearth while people who are watching sing Dunster Carols.
No.82137
>>82096that was actually a compliment
No.82776
>>82758Is this the origin story for cow girls?
No.82803
The human body can easily produce over 900 farts a day. Matter of fact, I personally have counted up to 928 farts in a single day that my body has produced.
No.82874
animals do not know what time it is
No.82875
>>82874Time is an abstract concept I doubt they really think about it like we do. But they probably have a perception of it.
No.82879
>>82874Not true, they do know what time it is. Most vertebrates including us have what is called a Pineal gland which produces melatonin when it's dark in order to tell us that it's time to sleep(or not to sleep in other animals). We use information gathered from our retina to do this but some other animals like the Tuatarra(a Lizard from New Zealand) have a 'third eye' that gathers this information and feeds it to the pineal gland instead. They certainly know what time it is.
No.82882
>>82875Too many people confuse sentience with sapience and say wildly incorrect things because of it.
No.82884
>>82879animals might know what time of day it is but not what time it is, time doesn’t shift with the seasons and remains at a 24 hour day under our understanding of it. an animal can only perceive time in relation to night and day which changes every single day, in general the rotation of the sun doesnt actually have anything to do with time and the idea that it does is rooted in the concept of time zones. it is the same time for me right now as it is for people on the other side of the earth. an animal is unable to understand this as to them time is not an abstract concept but purely the rotation of the sun.
No.82885
>>82884You fail to recognize the difference between perception and cognition. One does not need to know the minutia of time as being more than just a local phenomenon to recognize that time exists; the difference between day and night is irrelevant. Anything which lives must rangle with time or everything would be fixed in place. To infer the position of a running hare, must a fox not recognize that the hare must run and accelerate with time? Of course it must. Does at any point, however, the fox comprehend or ponder the nature of time? No, because it need not do so to experience and recognize,
intuitively, the existence of time. I should not need to point it out to you, either, but there are a number of creatures more that do not use the sun to tell time. Many lives deep in the ocean where sunlight cannot penetrate, and there some creatures that are blind such as bats.
No.82888
>>82885My point is less about the sun and more about how animals understand time in its relation of itself to other things, I was using the sun as an example. In your example the fox recognizes the specific hare in questions acceleration in relation to its own because it has no reason to ponder the acceleration of a hare it is not chasing, the calculation of finding the position of the hare is less about finding its acceleration and more a matter of triangulation with the fox, the hare, and the result of the foxes calculation as points. It is humans alone that would find the acceleration of the hare for no reason but for the sake of information, my point is that animals don't understand time as separate from their immediate reality, time exists along with themselves. In assigning numbers and units to time humans have created something that will continue to tick on forever even if there is no one to count it.
No.82891
>>82888>my point is that animals don't understand time as separate from their immediate reality, time exists along with themselves.This is a different argument from simply asserting that, "animals do not know what time it is."
Knowing and understanding or contemplating are very different things. I can know that if I toss a ball in the air that it will come back down, but that is separate from saying I understand gravity or think deeply about how or why the ball falls back to the ground.
No.82892
fine
animals dont understand what time it is
No.82893
Some humans fart 600 times a day making them actually animals. But presumably they are able to tell what time it is.
No.82984
>>82983Wonder if something like that can happen with crocodiles.
No.83008
>>82984Some of them can, though it looks like those that can are not too far related from each other and I can't be bothered to research it because crocodiles are stupid and I don't care. This thread is or fun facts not stupid crocodile facts...
No.83018
>>83014why aren't the dingoes eating their babies
anyway, a species introduced by human activity doing extremely well and disrupting an endemic ecosystem that developed in relative isolation isn't really much to brag about, rats on tropical islands are probably a hundreds times 'better' but you wouldn't probably praise them for their adaptability
it's sad how much biodiversity has been lost in australia...
No.83019
>>83018??? Cat's evolved to live with dogs, they can easily do it and would know how to prevent that.
Well Islands are different, Australian fauna doesn't actually have that excuse because Australia is so large, it's a continent, not an island. And also, in this case I am not referring to the predation upon the native wildlife itself but the hardiness of the cats in adapting to climates they were not made for, the native fauna can't use isolationism as an excuse as whether they were isolated in a desert or not they are still in a desert and need to adapt to that. But as for predation I still will not let them off, they are not dodos, they did not evolve in an environment with no land predators, there still are quolls and monitor lizards on the mainland but there also very recently used to be Tasmanian Devils and Tamanian Tigers on the mainland as well, this is just recently, before then you had even more predators like Thylacoleo. So they evolved in a desert alongside cat sized predators, they don't have an excuse not to be able to deal with them.
I hope they all die, they are inferior and should be replaced with cats. They should import Zebras, leopards and cheetahs, they would at least make proper use of the continent.
No.83022
>>83019that's uh, some unique views on ecology you've got there, but at the end of the day your precious cats will be up shit creek without a paddle after they've eaten all the birds
>??? Cat's evolved to live with dogs, they can easily do it and would know how to prevent that.i was just making a joke reference to the "dingo ate my baby", i guess the phrase is only part of popular culture outside australia ironically enough...
No.83023
>>83022They won't eat all the birds. They might eat all of the small marsupials but they don't matter and there will still be rabbits for them to eat.
I actually am Australian. But I do struggle with the vernacular sometimes, I'm not very good at being Australian.
No.83024
>>83008Respect your elders or you're gonna get the spin of death.
No.83025
>>83024Only if I go into the water... If it comes on land I will kill it, they are weak. Why do you think they are in the water? It's because they are afraid. They used to exist on land but cats chased them into the water and even know cats are going into the water to kill them. In not long Crocodiles will cease to exist and be a foot note in evolutionary biology, probably only a few million years. Already Jaguars kill them in their own domain, Other big cats will learn to do this too soon enough and then afterwards they will diversify and cat species will form that take the role of crocodiles.
Crocodiles are already dead they just don't know it yet(because they are stupid).
No.83039
>>83019>They should import Zebras, leopards and cheetahs, they would at least make proper use of the continent.I would make proper use of the continent by flooding the interior and turning the whole country lush.
No.83049
>>83039Maybe. I think to do that you would either need a huge pipeline or a huge canal from the ocean to the interior. The pipeline would probably not deliver enough water and the canal would be incredibly difficult and expensive to make over such a long distance and considering the gradient that would be required the lake you make at the end would have to be well and truly below sea level, you would lose a lot of water on the way there due to evaporation too but that could be both a good and bad thing as it may end up raining back on land somewhere anyway but I don't think a long and thin canal would produce enough evaporation over the area to significantly effect the climate if it even did at all. And of course in both cases you are dealing with salt water, which is not the best for life in interior areas. I think in the best case you would only end up with a small lake and maybe a small ecosystem around that.
Removing all the gum tress would help, they are awful tress in every way, not only are they the ugliest tree in existence but they burn easily, their leaf litter strangles the undergrowth so grass can't grow but most importantly in this context, they soak up a lot of water. I'm not sure how much effect it would actually have but it could not hurt and getting rid of ugly trees is a benefit itself.
No.83050
flip mars lets terraform australia
No.83592
This is more of a tip than a fun fact, but I think someone might find this beneficial to know, so:
If you're ever working in a video editing program and find that the files you're working with are too large, and it's either causing slowdown when editing or causes program instability, you can simply re-encode the files you're using to be smaller (either in dimensions or just filesize), and then edit using those files. Once you're done, you can simply replace the small versions that you used with the originals to create a high quality version.
Similarly, back before digital video was good enough to replace film, I've heard that it was a common practice to have both a tape recorder and a film camera set up to capture shots. Then, instead of waiting around for film to be developed to know whether or not the scene came out well, you can simply refer to the low quality tape version.
No.83594
-40 °F is equal to -40 °C
No.83596
>>83594fahrenheit is really dumb...
No.83598
>>83596Celsius is dumb. They should've made the scale longer. Fahrenheit is just innately more precise by virtue of having a longer scale from freezing to boiling, even if you think 32°F to 210°F is stupid. That's basically twice the precision when talking about human tolerable temperatures, since humans pretty much can't tolerate anything higher than 110°F (43.3°C).
No.83599
>>83598The scale isn't linear (-40 °F is equal to -40 °C) and it can be as precise as Fahrenheit can be just by adding a ",".
No.83600
>>83599In terms of integer precision for denoting the same temperatures, Fahrenheit is more precise. In practical usage, people are more likely to report temperatures in terms of integers than decimals.
No.83601
>>83600>In practical usage, people are more likely to report temperatures in terms of integers than decimals.Yes, and they do that specifically because an increased level of precision is not necessary. It is rare that even single-degree precision is at all relevant in everyday life, and it is easy enough to use decimals if it ever is.
No.83662
I just learned today that "drawfag" is a booru artist tag. Never knew.
No.83713
>>83685It is a bit grotesque.
No.83755
>>83754>I guess the whole of America is strange really.It's not called the New World for nothing.
No.83763
>>83760
>>83761
>>83762
I would really prefer if you guys didn't drag the thread in this direction
No.83769
>>83754>Guyana is 6.8% Muslim and Suriname is 14.3% Muslim. So they are by no means Muslim states. Well might as well call them that, since every single country with more than 5% Muslim has permanently become Muslim states, with Portugal being the only exception to reverse that.
No.84092
>>84091yeah I found this puzzling since milk can be regularly found in just about any store in Japan.
I guess if nothing else it's still good to have some for baking.
No.84095
>>84091It varies a lot by the study you get it from and how they conduct it.
So for example this site lists Japan as 73% lactose intolerant and Italy at 72%
https://milk.procon.org/lactose-intolerance-by-country/But this study says only 19% of Japanese adults are lactose intolerant if drinking 200ml of milk.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1234085/The symptoms of Lactose Intolerance are often fairly mild and many people don't even show symptoms at all.
But they always drink milk after they have baths in anime so lactose intolerance probably isn't much of an issue for them really.
No.84098
>>84095Part of the problem in methodology is that lactose intolerance is relative to the amount consumed. It's sort of an S-curve, where beyond a certain amount your body just can't process any more lactose. For instance, I can eat maybe 2-3 mozzarella sticks and be perfectly fine, but if I happen to eat 4 or more, I'll get sick.
No.84107
You guys are conflating lactase (the enzyme responsible for breaking down lactose) persistence in adulthood and lactose intolerance. Lactose intolerance is caused by not being lactase persistent, but not having the enzyme doesn't necessarily mean you'll have any symptoms when drinking milk, you just won't be able to digest the lactose in it and it will just pass through your digestive system.
Not being lactase persistent is actually "normal" - pretty much all mammals lose their ability to digest lactose after being weaned as do the vast majority of humans - most europeans and some other specific populations have a genetic mutation that allows them to digest lactose even in adulthood which probably arose because those populations heavily relied on diary animals for subsistence.
Another fun fact related to that - lactose free milk doesn't have lactose removed, it has lactase added to it in order to "predigest" the lactose, it's why such milk tastes sweeter because the lactose has already been broken down into more simpler sugars.
No.84132
Wikipedia has articles on numbers.
No.84134
>>84132Good articles on numbers. Most people don't put bad info into math wikipedia articles.
No.84533
In all of the human's languages, 'm' is the most common consonant, and 'i' is the most common vowel. They present in more than 90% of languages.
mimi mimi miiiiiiii~
No.84536
>>84533What vowel sound is 'i' here? English is so flexible with its vowels (especially if you take dialects into account) that that could be just anything...
No.84540
>>84534that's more than just the mimi....
No.84543
foxy looking patch
No.84831
It's much easier get a girl preggers by sperming directly into her womb through her navel rather than her vagoo.
No.84843
Only 744 B-52 bombers have been built. By comparison there were 12,731 B-17 bombers built, 18,188 B-24 bombers built, and 9,816 B-25 bombers built.
>>84831This doesn't sound true.
No.85281
>>85279this looks like an ancient meme
No.85290
fun fact: i'm about to sperm
No.85293
>>85232>Depending on your country's traditions, today is either 22/2/22 or 2/22/22! These three year systems are used in official documents so it's not the case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_namehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche_calendar No.85702
As alkaline batteries discharge they become more bouncy due to the chemical reaction inside. As a result, you can approximate charge by dropping them and seeing how high they bounce, as a more charged battery will be less bouncy.
No.85704
>>85293the japanese calendar is heretic as hell, arbitrary eras make me feel really unsafe
it's no wonder they get hit by earthquakes every other day
No.85714
>>85704You would've loved living in the Roman Republic. They called each year by the elected consuls, like "the year of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony". Consuls changed every year.
No.85715
>>85704To be fair, in practice the Japanese when referring to modern things only seem to use it as an equivalent to western "generations" and doesnt really come into play otherwise
No.86338
Granite naturally contains trace amounts of elements such as uranium and thorium and so your seemingly mundane granite countertops may actually be emitting low amounts of beta and gamma radiation!
No.86454
Someone reminded me of the Big Mad Index in IRC so I'm reposting it here.
It's an economics thing that started as a joke, but it's actually pretty accurate and informative.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/07/23/what-the-big-mac-index-says-about-the-dollar-and-the-dong No.86695
"jwt" (JSON web token) is pronounced "jot" and not "jew-it"
No.86766
>>86747This is neither a fact, nor fun. Please keep your dumb social media posts to yourself.
No.86784
>>84091maybe they just get a bit gassy
No.86785
>>86780>Their populations now number over 400,000, however most of these are animals bred in captivity for meat. Wait, what? Americans eat bison? What do they taste like?
No.86786
>>86785Apparently the taste is similar to beef. The difference seemingly is mainly that bison meat has less fat and is a bit healthier.
No.86821
>>86785I've had bison burgers before, I liked it more than beef burgers. I'm vegetarian now though.
No.86822
>>86821I thought about becoming a vegetarian since I barely eat any meat however I like cheese too much to ever stop eating it.
No.86824
>>86822Vegetarians can still eat cheese.
No.86826
>>86823Eating cheese or being vegetarian?
No.86830
>>86823>>86828Being pesco-vegetarian is objectively the healthiest diet.
No.86831
>>86830That diet is why the Japanese had an average height of 5 feet before they started eating red meat.
No.86832
>>86831What does height have to do with being healthy? And that's not true. They always ate red meat (pork).
No.86833
>>86832It has a lot to do with being healthy. And it is true. The Japanese didn't eat animals with 4 legs before the Meji restoration due to religious reasons. Pigs have 4 legs.
No.86835
>>86833I read that pork was not banned. Only horse, dog, monkey and poultry meat.
>It has a lot to do with being healthyOnly on a very superficial level. Americans are taller than the Japanese yet their life expectancy is 6 years lower. The US has a life expectancy on par with third world countries due to their bad diet. Processed red meat is the worst possible food you can eat and Americans eat that a lot
No.86836
>>86835high obesity rates is a factor but US life expectancy was still fairly average, it was the opioid epidemic which caused life expectancy to fall to where it is
No.86837
>>86836Today it has a lower life expectancy than Colombia and Peru.
No.86838
"I'm here for a good time, not a long time."
-American read meat enthusiasts
No.86839
National stats like this feel like a rorschach test.
No.86846
>>86841>Armpits - Bacteriait can't be just bacteria because the japanese (and other east asians) have considerably reduced body odor intensity to the point almost no one even bothers with deodorants there
No.86856
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesisThere is a hypothesis that low levels of radiation are actually healthy for you. It's hard to disprove because the more mainstream model "Linear No-Threshold" predicts low levels of radiation cause very minute increases in cancer that are very hard to measure.
No.86859
There is in fact a difference between being irradiated and radioactive. To be irradiated refers to being exposed to radiation. To be radioactive means that something gives off radiation.
Food is commonly irradiated for sterilization purposes. The radiation kills bacteria, pests, and fungi. This is not dissimilar from using UV light for sterilization.
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irradiation-what-you-need-know No.86861
>>86859Yeah I used the wrong term then. I thought they were interchangeable. That's straight up radioactive water similar to bodies of water where nuclear waste is dumped in.
No.86862
>>86860Also some of the ads at the beginning look right out of fallout
No.86863
>>86861>similar to bodies of water where nuclear waste is dumped in.In modern reactor designs, river water used for cooling is never in direct contact with any radioactive material at any point. Neither is radioactive material dumped into bodies of water for the purpose of disposal.
However, there was one such incident in which this occurred in the Soviet Union. The nuclear reactors at Mayak built between 1945-1948 used an "open-cycle" cooling system wherein water from Lake Kyzyltash flowed directly over the reactors and then was discharged back into the lake. This resulted in the rivers Techa and Ob becoming contaminated with nuclear waste. Later on, nuclear waste was stored in tanks, however, in 1957 one of these tanks exploded releasing more radioactive material than was released in the reactor explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl NPP.
No.86871
>>86863Between this, Chernobyl, and the Aral Sea getting drained the Soviet Union really did cement it's place for massive, irredeemable fuckups.
Glad they're gone.
No.86872
>>86835I was confused why you would think that so I did a quick search and it seems you are referring to a very early law by Emperor Tenmu form the 7th century that banned what you listed but only during one part of the year for some reason and then in the 8th century they banned killing all animals and even fishing. So take that how you will. Anyway clearly that was modified or removed in the hundreds of years and many civil wars since then. As I said, they didn't eat four legged animals until the Meji restoration.
Americans are also one of the most obese countries in the planet, with a terrible health care system and they have sugar and who knows what in pretty much everything. There are always more factors to this than one simple metric. However, while it's hard to say because different studies releases different results, Australia and Switzerland are also pretty high up there in life expectancy and according to some studies Australian males actually have the longest life expectancy of any males. Australia is also the second largest consumer of red meat per capita as well by the way.
As for processes meat, you should really look into that study because it's highly flawed. It's based on isolating one compound found in processed red meat and then giving a ridiculous amount of that to lab mice, an amount so ridiculous that you physically could never consume that much as a human eating red meat.
No.86873
Friendly reminder to restrain yourself in constantly replying to other posts. The point of this thread is to share fun facts, not argue or have long-form discussions.
No.86876
The largest known animal is the Blue Whale, being around 130 tons, with the heaviest confirmed being 175 tons. I found two sauropods (admittedly with cryptic samples) that could compete with that position. The "Broome Titanosaur" and Bruhathkayosaurus could actually surpass the Blue Whale in size if some of their estimates are true.
The Broome Titanosaur is only known from a footprint found in the Broome Sandstone formations in Western Australia. That said, these footprints were 1.5-2 meters long. Some weight estimates based on these footprints are a weight range of 120-200 tonnes.
As for Bruhathkayosaurus, it has more fossil evidence, in the form of a few bones. The tibia in particular is significantly larger than that of Argentinosaurus, and could've had it at weights of up to 200 tons.
There's also a few more sauropods with similar weight estimates to the two I mentioned, like Amphicoelias fragillimus and Parabrontopodus distercii. Granted, every single sauropod mentioned here has undergone a lot of discussion as to their actual size; with some conservative and lower estimates putting them below 100 tons, while others put them at 200+ tons. That's why you'll see plenty of completely different weight ranges if you were to research these names online. My main point is that if the larger estimations are true, then they could very well be in the "largest animal" category.
No.86928
>>86873that's not the /qa/ way
No.87093
Salmons die after mating due to massive release of corticosteroids which inhibit their cells ability to multiply and cause programmed death in their cells. They swim around while falling apart. Isn't that yabai?
And since corticosteroids are the thing that your kidneys release when you're under stress it really puts into perspective how being stressed is bad for you.
No.87128
In February 1959, the mercury distribution in Minamata Bay was investigated. The results shocked the researchers involved. Large quantities of mercury were detected in fish, shellfish, and sludge from the bay. The highest concentrations centred around the Chisso factory wastewater canal in Hyakken Harbour and decreased going out to sea, clearly identifying the plant as the source of contamination. Pollution was so heavy at the mouth of the wastewater canal, a figure of 2 kg of mercury per ton of sediment was measured: a level that would be economically viable to mine. Indeed, Chisso did later set up a subsidiary to reclaim and sell the mercury recovered from the sludge.[20]
No.87249
A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared.
No.87290
1 sperm candle = 1.14 HK
No.87476
John Napier Invented the Logarithm in 1614
No.87733
The longest year in history was 46 BC, which lasted 445 days. This oddly long year was on account of Julius Caesar extending the year so that the seasons would stay constant over time, as the Winter solstice was occurring in the summer months. This was also the year of the introduction of the Julian calendar, the basis of our mondern calendar system. The Julian calendar would remain in usage until 1582 when it was superseceded by the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. Despite this, the Gregorian calendar is a minor revision, only changing the average year length from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days.
No.87734
>>87476I'm honestly surprised it wasn't Euler.
No.87780
>>87779>before repair.Strange way to phrase "bandaging/topical medication"
No.87810
Teeth can actually heal minor decay over time so long as the decay is not extensive and hasn't broken through to the dentin or inner layer of the tooth.
No.89269
Was looking around at human eye stuff and apparently human eye color differences are from this and not pigment differences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effectIt's a "structural color". The pigment is actually brown, but the cellular structure bounces it around and it looks blue or green to an observer. This is how it is for peacock tails, too, although birds do have a variety of "real" pigment colors.
Huh. Biology really is amazing.
No.89270
>>89269That's also true for plants as well. If I'm remembering correctly, there's only one plant that actually has natural blue pigment. The rest only appear blue due to that phenomenon.
No.89540
Queen Elizabeth II is the only remaining head of state who served in WW2.
No.89551
>>89540I'm not sure you can really call what the queen does "serving". She reigns.
No.89563
>>89551No, she actually served as a truck driver/mechanic. She was not queen then.
No.89564
>>89563Sorry, I read "served since WW2".
No.89725
>>89557Popes start old though it's a miracle one of them even lives 10 years.
It was always a pain in the ass having to keep track of those guys in Crusader Kings when I was weighing in mentally the real cost of buying their loyalty versus how old they are.
No.89879
And also Leopard seals aren't Leopards either.
No.89883
sea horses might not look like it but they in fact aren't large bodies of salted water
No.89884
die sagers
No.89885
live sagers
No.89929
>>89884>>89885>>89890None of these are fun facts. Consider not posting next time.
>>89926Interesting, but not a fun fact.
No.89947
The velociraptors in the Jurassic park Franchise are not actually velociraptors, they are dromaeosaurs. Kemono Friends does not have a velociraptor so I can't show you what one actually looks like.
No.89951
>>89948I too would prefer her bag of meat over the two slices on her hand.
No.89952
>>89951That's not a fun fact, that's a creepy perv fact.
>>89929 isn't going to be happy when he sees this.
No.89975
Aesop's Fables was the only book in existence to be excluded from the expulsion of Western books in Edo Japan.
No.89978
>>89975westaboos at it again
No.90045
>>89975shogunate approved!
No.90094
japanese people sleep in the closet
No.90339
The return message to a "PING" command is called a "PONG". PING... PONG.
No.90815
The world hiccup champion had a hiccup for 69 years.
No.90828
>>90339ah, I see you have the machine that goes `PING'. This is my favourite.
No.92132
Childhood anemia increases the chance of childhood leukemia.
No.93289
A kiwis egg is massive, taking up around 20% of the birds mass. When the bird hatches it is has everything it needs and retains nutrients from the egg enough to last it enough time to figure things out in its own
No.93618
With the estimation for the number of particles in the observable universe being 10^80 (or 10^89), you could write one digit of a googolplex (10 ^ (10^ 100)) on each particle in the universe and still run out of space to write the whole number.
Made me realize the fact that there are infinitely many numbers that even if you had the ability to write would be limited by the size of the entire universe!
No.93622
>>93618What do you mean by “size”? Are you referring to the space occupied by or the number of particles in the visible universe? Considering the set of all real numbers, your realization requires space to be quantized. If space is continuous then you can create a function mapping every real number to some portion of space. As even though, the total space is a finite number, the cardinality of the set including 0 to any real number is the same as that of all the real numbers.
No.93798
>>93797I'm sure the modern eye is used to identify the ancient spiky form of 'hill'(rather mountain) as grass or fire or crown(unornamented).
No.93799
>>93797just at a glance, the modern characters are much faster to write
No.93803
>>93797More precisely, they are logographs, like that of early cuneiform and mayan glyphs as well. Though, a huge difference between chinese characters and other systems is their deep-seated dislike of using characters purely for their phonetic value, so Gardiner's sign list included a mere 763 egyptian hieroglyphs compared to the 2999 totalled today by the jouyou and jinmeiyou kanji.
>needlessly complicated in comparisonALLOW ME
TO QUOTE
A beautiful fragment from the introduction to Léon Wieger's most excellent 1915
Chinese Characters, Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification: A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents:
>2. Causes of the gradual transformation of characters. — The first to be noticed, is the complete change in the instruments and material used for writing. The ancients wrote with a sort of fountain-pen, upon small laths of bamboo or smooth wooden tablets.>Such an instrument traces lines any way it is moved, either backwards or forwards, straight or curved, as one likes, but all equally thick.>Not long after the catalogue of Li-ssu was edited, Ch’éng-miao invented a pencil of soft wood, ending in a fibrous point, which being dipped in the black varnish, was used for writing on silk strips. Traced with this coarse instrument on a rough material, the rounded figures became square, the curved lines were broken at right angles. But this ungraceful writing being quicker than with the fountain-pen, the wooden pencil was adopted for public deeds, and the li-tzu or official hand, became the current writing, while the lesser seal characters remained the classical writing.>As it commonly happens, the way being opened, inventions succeeded one another. During his campaigns against the Huns, the general Meng-t'ien is said to have invented or improved the writing-brush, the ink and the paper. This invention was fatal to the characters. — A writing-brush cannot trace lines against the hair, therefore many characters could not be written and were replaced by arbitrary and fanciful sketches. — The materials used further helped to increase the confusion. Paper is absorbent: hence came the thick strokes, the thin strokes and the slabbery letters, which were all unknown to the ancients. — A writing brush, made with stiff and elastic hair, flattens out when pressed down, twists when turned, projects its point when raised up; hence the swellings, the joints, the crooks, which are not intentional, are due to the instrument itself. — Therefore the actual classical writing chieh-tzu, represents the hsiao-chuan as transformed by the writing-brush.>There is more. The writing-brush galloping, the strokes were connected up, giving birth to the lien-pei-tzu; then it flew, throwing on the paper misshapen figures, which are called ts'ao-tzu. The fancy for these novelties became a rage. At the beginning of the Christian era, a man believed himself dishonoured if he wrote in a legible way. In this crisis, the initiative of a private scholar saved what could still be saved.>>93799Not always, the ancient form of 日 was easier to write than something like Ó, just a circle with a dot, while 月 and 耳 were utterly butchered.
No.95010
>>93805it could be intentional but these remind me of stuff from Mushishi
No.99550
Most materials are RF transparent or interact very weakly, but water interacts very strongly. So, if you're ever microwaving something and are finding the heating lackluster: very slightly dampening it can improve the heating a lot.
No.99568
Today the human population of Earth has reached 8 Billion.
No.99570
>>99569Nothing will be done about it though
No.99573
>>99569the most cheerful and optimistic Finn
No.101493
The process of making the fanciest wines in the world is befittingly as intensive and precise as one would expect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrockenbeerenausleseThis is the highest sweetness level of wine that you can find. Even if you look outside of wine and consider fruit beverages in general, it's probably naturally the sweetest drink by far. To even start to produce this special kind of wine requires the year's climate be in a vineyard's favor, meaning there's many years that it can't even be produced (although it's become around supposedly every 2/5 years as apposed to around once a decade because of climate change). Why a good year is required is due to the noble rot that's required for the sweetness of the grapes to manifest itself best. In a year where there's lots of moisture the rot turns into grey rot and destroys the crop.
Given that you have a good location and year to grow such grapes, there's still additional challenges to get a bottle of tba wine. As once the grapes are afflicted with noble rot they become shriveled almost like a raisin. Making the extraction process more challenging, and the overall amount of grapes needed to produce a full bottle rise exponentially. Even after all this, there's still a greater level of scrutiny one can use to discern the quality of a tba with which vineyard it came from. Like which river the vineyard lay on, and the mineral content of the soil/soil quality from which the grapes are grown.
To me, one of the most interesting parts of this all is that the production of this type of wine has been tradition for hundreds of years at this point. Which stands as a testament to humanity's ingenuity and creativity when it comes to making better food/drinks for itself.
No.102362
When looking through danbooru tags I learned that the seiza, the elegantly painful traditional Japanese sitting position that foreigners can't maintain was recognized as an "immoral punishment" if parents forced their kids to do it. I
think that means it's illegal now since it mentioned child abuse?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/04/national/social-issues/japanese-sitting-style-recognized-punishment-new-law/ No.102365
>>102362The example was specifically "you were messing around with something important (implying there may have been some damage to it), so now you must sit in seiza for a long period of time"
With "long period of time" being the key, and also the use as a punishment. The law appears to be a prohibition on punishments that cause physical pain or discomfort. I don't think it would be applicable to something like making your kids sit in seiza at a funeral service.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASMD35HCLMD3UTFK00Y.html No.102369
>>102362I can sit like this with all the abuse I've put my knees through but apparently expecting children to do it is unreasonable hmm
No.102612
There's a Classical Chinese Wikipedia, alongside Latin, Sanskrit, and... Old Church Slavonic, wow. That one I didn't expect. Here's the full list, it's a long one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias No.102616
>>102612I think AI will make this even more insane
No.104284
Peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes like lentils or chickpeas, and the Catholic Church is female.
No.104287
>>104284>the Catholic Church is femaleFemale as in a feminine noun?
No.104291
>>104287Ayup, always referred to as "she".
No.104292
>>104291That's strange. I've only ever it referred to as "the Church," never with a gendered pronoun.
No.104293
>>104292Yeah, but in scripture and other religious texts she's female. Here's an excerpt from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
>Through Tradition, "the Church, in her doctrine, life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes." No.104340
>>104338Ahh, just the church in general, makes sense.
No.104501
I learned that a game mechanic has a name: the Ubisoft Tower:
https://www.videogamer.com/news/assassins-creed-creator-says-hes-slightly-sorry-about-the-ubisoft-tower-craze/https://www.vg247.com/exploring-and-uncovering-the-dreaded-ubisoft-towerhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowsNestCartographyIf you're playing an open world game, but the game uses focal points to guide the player to specific locations to unlock something to make navigation easier, or even possible at all, it's called a "Ubisoft Tower" after the company that made the Assassin's Creed games.
I'd say Elden Ring has them because you start with a dull, primitive map and to upgrade it you need to visit the locations marked on it to grab "map fragments" to get a far more functional map
No.106520
There's a few informal English interjections that come from closing the mouth at the end, causing a /p/ to be inserted:
yeah -> yeap
no -> nope
well -> welp
Of course you already know them, but it's funny that the change comes from just not opening your mouth enough hehehehehhe
No.106541
Boch Bach and Handel(best known for the Hallelujah chorus) were blind at the end of their lives and both were treated by the same doctor who turned out to be an occult charlatan who only worsened their condition.
No.111428
In a completely degenerate electron gas, pressure is no longer dependent on temperature. This fact helps explain how stellar objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs can cool down without shrinking. The pressure from electron degeneracy doesn't increase the temperature/come from the temperature but from the degenerate pressure, which prevents these stars from shrinking while still losing heat.
No.111430
>>111424Reminds me of all the different ant species that do things like herding other insects, growing fungi, or taking slaves. It did make me wonder, a lack of taxonomic distinction would mean that either this particularly complex type of behavior was convergently developed multiple times, or lost by most species. This paper posits the latter, that it may be an ancestral trait:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07105-y>>111428That's a very complex fact.
No.111882
and Alberta hit it's lowest oil production in a while. Seems like a political move if anything to appease the "made in the USA" voices.
Can vs US dollar low enough for me to be getting good deals on exported skilled labour
No.111919
A lot of fediverse instances got pwned and users are being mass doxed
No.111925
>>111919Surely people aren't putting readily identifiable information on these...
No.113323
>>86780>>86781The bison should roam free.