Current Events > Random Interesting Facts ITT #4

(+) Yeah! (+)

where's the fourth foot if he only has three legs?

the guy that took the picture with the cheetah has studied them for decades so they were familiar with him and new he was cool. animals are smart.

there was an injured crow in the parking lot this last week. the rest of his murder hung around and cawed at anyone that got close to him, protecting one of their own. smart birbs.

ROBANN_88 posted...

where's the fourth foot if he only has three legs?

I can only assume one of those legs has an additional foot.

To this day, No WWE wrestler born in the 90s has ever won a WWE World Heavyweight Title.

You can't lick your elbow

Actually. I love the take that the myth has persisted for 100,000 years.

The next time I am away from light pollution I will look for 7 of them. I guess truth is better than a beautiful story?

Terry Pratchett changed his German publisher in 1994.
Heyne was the biggest German scifi publisher at the time so why would he change?
He discovered that they had inserted two pages of ads for 5 Min Soup.
Suddenly the story took a break and the main character sat down and ate some 5 Min Soup.
Pratchett got angry and demanded an apology and a promise that it would never happen again. Heyne couldnt do that, so he switched publisher. This was right before he became really popular in Germany.
Heyne seems to have done this with pretty much every book they published, there is even a Star Trek TNG book that got soup ads.
This originated in the 50s/60s when they published cheap pockets and they had tons of cheap scripts to pick from, they simply needed the inbook ads to make a profit.
Jumping to the 90s and they were selling expensive books, so those ads were not needed to make a profit, but they were a nice bonus. The suits got a higher profit, the writers didnt know about it and the readers were used to them, they were just happy to be able to read the published books. Shortly after Heyne stopped with the ads.

https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/

There were a number of reasons for switching to Goldmann, but a deeply personal one for me was the way Heyne (in Sourcery, I think, although it may have been in other books) inserted a soup advert in the text a few black lines and then something like Around about now our heroes must be pretty hungry and what better than a nourishing bowl etc, etc. My editor was pretty sick about it, but the company wouldnt promise not to do it again, so that made it very easy to leave them. They did it to Iain Banks, too, and apparently at a con he tore out the offending page and ate it. Without croutons.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/238c5d3c.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/40c553e3.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

I can only assume one of those legs has an additional foot.

Lentini was born with a parasitic twin. The twin was attached to his body at the base of his spine and consisted of a pelvic bone, a rudimentary set of male genitalia, and a full-sized leg extending from the right side of his hip, with a small foot protruding from its knee."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lentini#:~:text=Lentini%20was%20born%20with%20a,foot%20protruding%20from%20its%20knee

Back in 1997 a guy tried to bungee jump off a 70 foot railroad trestle using bungee cords. Those little stretchy cords with hooks at each end.

He ended up making it too long, and just went splat

I wonder if he had time to realize his error before he hit

ROBANN_88 posted...

I wonder if he had time to realize his error before he hit

...any time now... any ti

random

I case anyone was wondering, the name they changed it to was TrekStor Blaxx :3

Nogger is an European ice lolly in a dark color.
Around 2005 Sweden got a special version with licorice flavor called... Nogger Black.

Nephews/Nieces of the Hamas' political leader have served in the Israeli army according to today's Wikipedia article on Ismail Haniyeh[ constant edits you know]

Haniyeh's sisters, Kholidia, Laila, and Sabah, are Israeli citizens and live in the Bedouin town of Tel as-Sabi in southern Israel.[59] Kholodia moved to Tel as-Sabi first and then her two sisters followed.[59] Kholidia's husband said "Our life is normal here and we want it to continue."[59] Laila and Sabah are both widowed but remain in Tel as-Sabi, presumably to retain their Israeli citizenship.[59] Some of the children of the three sisters have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).[59]

The cicadas emerging now may be 13 year or 17 year. Surprisingly, each of the 3 species of long term cicadas has 13 year and 17 members. Savants cannot see a difference between the pairs.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-difference-betw/

...
Periodical cicadas occur in three pairs of species--each pair comprised of a 17-year and a 13-year species. (There are other cicadas, such as dog-day cicadas, which have only a four-year life cycle.) The periodical varieties look, sound and behave alike. The only characteristic distinguishing them from one another is the length of time they spend in the ground during the nymphal stages--either 13 or 17 years.
...

They also cycle together.

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/species/

Brood XIX, emerging now around Chicago, contains all of the "magic cicadas".

The Japanese voice actors for Jin, Hakumen and Hilda have voiced hentai :3

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6c7d4601.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/59d27cb0.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e1f7c104.jpg

Rodents cannot vomit.

They found rodents had bodily constraints that would limit how much they could vomit even if they could attempt it. This included reduced muscularity of the diaphragm, the thin sheet of muscle underneath the lungs, as well as a stomach that is not structured well for moving contents up the throat.
The researchers also investigated the brainstems of lab mice and rats. When given compounds that normally trigger nausea in other animals, the researchers saw less nerve, mouth, throat and shoulder activity normally linked with vomiting. This suggests they lack the brain circuits for throwing up.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-rodents-cant-throw-up-in-case-you-were-wondering-25707720/

Ice is considered a mineral but only if it's naturally formed

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5f1ff5aa.jpg

Plants cry when theyre stressed or cut, but its too high pitched for humans to hear. When they need water or have been recently cut, they make roughly 35 sounds per hour, while well-hydrated, uncut plants make just about one per hour.

YugiNoob posted...

Plants cry when theyre stressed or cut, but its too high pitched for humans to hear. When they need water or have been recently cut, they make roughly 35 sounds per hour, while well-hydrated, uncut plants make just about one per hour.

The life of grass must be torture

Yep. Your entire existence is getting sliced up over and over and all you can do is silently scream D:

YugiNoob posted...

Yep. Your entire existence is getting sliced up over and over and all you can do is silently scream D:

I still remember the Mythbusters episode on it.funny watching grown men just slap the shit out or plants.

You really should give references for above, plants crying. I checked the Internet just to be sure but I was about chide you for being facetious. I am going to hunt for links.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37001499/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37344301/

The first is the source and the second is what my search turned up and where I found the source.

Abstract
Stressed plants show altered phenotypes, including changes in color, smell, and shape. Yet, airborne sounds emitted by stressed plants have not been investigated before. Here we show that stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be recorded from a distance and classified. We recorded ultrasonic sounds emitted by tomato and tobacco plants inside an acoustic chamber, and in a greenhouse, while monitoring the plant's physiological parameters. We developed machine learning models that succeeded in identifying the condition of the plants, including dehydration level and injury, based solely on the emitted sounds. These informative sounds may also be detectable by other organisms. This work opens avenues for understanding plants and their interactions with the environment and may have significant impact on agriculture.

( So cutting edge that any moment I expect someone to reveal to me I fell for a hoax.)

CobraGT posted...

You really should give references for above, plants crying. I checked the Internet just to be sure but I was about chide you for being facetious. I am going to hunt for links.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37001499/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37344301/

The first is the source and the second is what my search turned up and where I found the source.

( So cutting edge that any moment I expect someone to reveal to me I fell for a hoax.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/science/plant-sounds-stress.html
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-cry-out-when-they-need-water-we-just-cant-hear-them-71607
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychology-tomorrow/202304/do-plants-cry-in-distress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plants-emit-a-rather-noisy-cry-for-help-when-under-stress-scientists-find/
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2823%2900262-3#%20

There are a bunch of other sources but I'm too lazy to post them all. Also some links are too long.

Also I don't quite get that stuff you posted. It says "airborne sounds emitted by stressed plants have not been investigated before" when that's obviously false.

YugiNoob posted...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/science/plant-sounds-stress.html
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-cry-out-when-they-need-water-we-just-cant-hear-them-71607
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychology-tomorrow/202304/do-plants-cry-in-distress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plants-emit-a-rather-noisy-cry-for-help-when-under-stress-scientists-find/
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2823%2900262-3#%20

There are a bunch of other sources but I'm too lazy to post them all. Also some links are too long.

Also I don't quite get that stuff you posted. It says "airborne sounds emitted by stressed plants have not been investigated before" when that's obviously false.

@YugiNoob The articles you list are all expository!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37344301/

did real work and references others who contribute to the field.

I do not know what to say to anyone who thinks science writers are more authoritive than the actual research.

But why would so many news outlets knowingly post false information :<

I meant https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37001499/

as the study.

As for "But why would so many news outlets knowingly post false information :<"

Information is not an amusement. Your whimsy is misplaced.

I mean I remembered seeing it in a book I had a long time ago so I went to find online info about it now.

Still though, it would be appreciated if you could be a bit more understanding about innocent mistakes that harm no one. Im not telling people that horse dewormer cures covid; Im just saying what I read years ago and found on a lot of generally reputable websites so I assumed it to be true.

And whimsy is sort of my thing. I tend to put faces at the end of most of my sentences/paragraphs unless its serious, and react to posts with one or more of my literally hundreds of reaction pics. So please, correct me if I present false information, but try to do so in a polite fashion.

I am not meaning to hold a mistake against you or whimsy against you.

Besides, I never would have learned about plants making sound and responding to sound.

Hard to believe is all the more amazing.

I didn't know this.

Thought one should never flood their plants.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/522a5ae8.jpg

CobraGT posted...

I am not meaning to hold a mistake against you or whimsy against you.

Besides, I never would have learned about plants making sound and responding to sound.

Hard to believe is all the more amazing.

Okay, thank you for being understanding rather than hostile about the situation.

Also the watering thing is interesting. Its probably why my plants never did well lol

I think the reason I got so touchy about it is that there is a real need for people to respect research that documents how it achieves its results and that can be repeated.

It is just crucial imo for our futures that we base our 'facts' on observations that can be re-observed under the same conditions by anyone:

People believe the earth goes around the sun.

People believed covid transmission was a hoax.

Ten of thousands of Venezuelans made the arduous and long-long journey to the USA based on false info from social media.

But being friendly plays a crucial role in information. If people do not share, ... If people do not listen, ...

So I wanna be friends.

Singer/actors Jeremy Jordan and Erika Henningsen have performed together in the online cartoon Hazbin Hotel and the Studio Cast recording of the play The Violet Hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzMHmnDwOz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeyFzh_6GU

lol

Bees don't have ears, so they "hear" by sensing vibrations in the air through their antennae and legs

Random Grover Cleveland facts

• He was the first president to be married in the White House
• His wife Frances Cleveland is the youngest First Lady at 21-years-old; 27 years younger than her husband
• He is the only president to serve non-consecutive terms

Elvis had a chimp named Scatter. Unfortunately, he was quite the troublemaker. He would tear up dressing rooms when Elvis took him to filmings, and lift up womens skirts. He also liked to drink alcohol. One theory as to what caused his death is that servants who were sick of his behavior.

Random Topher Grace facts

• His name is Christopher John Grace
• He didn't like being called Chris, so when he introduced himself he would say something like "Hi, my name's Christopher", and they would say "Nice to meet you Chris", he'd say "Topher...". He jokingly told the hottest girl at his boarding school that he might use that as his name, and she said "That's cute!", which is what finalized it lol
• When he was in the Venom costume in Spider-Man 3, he didn't drink water during breaks because he couldn't use the bathroom with the suit on lol

The visible universe is 46 billion light-years in radius.
The universe is 13.8 billion years old.

The fact here is that Neanderthals are controversial. They lived in ice age Europe. Some anthropologists say they had tar and fire and taught the newcomers

But today, the ultimate controversy is the Neanderthal flute

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dbde5c1f.jpg

The naysayers claim the holes are random. Personally, I believe it is a flute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute