During World War II, the allies had a plan to build an aircraft carrier made of ice.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Habakukk_aircraft_02.jpg/480px-Habakukk_aircraft_02.jpg

Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time. The plan was to create what would have been the largest ship ever at 600 metres (1,969 ft) long, which would have been much bigger than even USS Enterprise, the largest naval vessel ever, at 342 metres (1,122 ft) long. The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke, who worked for Combined Operations Headquarters. After promising scale tests and the creation of a prototype on Patricia Lake, Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, the project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the Mid-Atlantic gap that the project was intended to address.

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

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

12 Black Dots - How many dots can you see at once?12 Black Dots - How many dots can you see at once?

There are 12 black dots at the intersections in this image.

Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. This occurs because the eye’s stimulated light receptors can sometimes influence the ones next to them, creating illusions.

The brain can see some black dots but guesses when it fills in the peripheral vision. Because mostly grey lines appear in the periphery, the black dots don’t appear. https://m.stacker.news/16350

Fun Fact : Hal Finney is SATOSHI NAKAMOTO (Craig wright is not) https://m.stacker.news/16349:

There is a city called BATMAN in Turkey.

In the 19th century, there was a peculiar trend known as "Tulip Mania" that swept through the Netherlands. It was one of the earliest recorded speculative bubbles in history.

During Tulip Mania, which peaked in the early 1630s, the price of tulip bulbs skyrocketed to extraordinary levels, with some bulbs selling for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. People from all walks of life, including wealthy merchants and ordinary citizens, became caught up in the frenzy, buying and selling tulip bulbs in the hopes of turning a quick profit.

However, the bubble eventually burst in 1637, leading to a dramatic collapse in tulip prices. Many investors suffered significant financial losses, and the Dutch economy was adversely affected for years to come.

https://m.stacker.news/16389

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your tongue knows exactly how everything you look at will feel if licked.

Did you know that "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand? 😁😁

Canadian couple live ‘off-grid’ in self-sustaining floating homeCanadian couple live ‘off-grid’ in self-sustaining floating home

Catherine King and Wayne Adams have spent more than 20 years living ‘off-the-grid’ in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The couple, who built their island self-sustaining home back in 1991, have been growing food, collecting drinking water and generating electricity ever since.

The floating island home, which they’ve named “Freedom Cove,” consists of 12 lake floats that include a dance floor, an art gallery, a guest lighthouse, a studio for Catherine King and Wayne Adams, and five greenhouses. The self-sustaining settlement has half an acre of land for growing edible crops. The couple gets water from a nearby waterfall during the summer and from rainwater during the winter. An array of 14 solar panels had powered the settlement but recently switched to a generator after these broke down.

https://www.boredpanda.com/sustainable-home-off-the-grid-freedom-cove-wayne-adams-catherine-king/

https://m.stacker.news/16356

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

January 3rd, 2009, bitcoin came alive after Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block. Embedded in the block was a message that is a shortening of a newspaper headline of the day: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". The full headline: "Chancellor Alistair Darling on brink of second bailout for banks." One day before Nakamoto registered Bitcoin.org, somebody registered Netcoin.org on the anonymous domain registrar AnonymousSpeech.

Will history repeat or rhyme?

https://m.stacker.news/16351

Chronological Snobbery

A term first coined by C. S. Lewis, whereby one generation believes that they are better than the previous one, or any prior generation, simply due to the passage of time.

Cat urine glows under a black-light.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to today than she did to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dirty fiat dollar.

https://m.stacker.news/16422

Fact: There are no objective "facts". There is always a margin of error. There are always outliers. What we believe is what we see. Fact is a word we made up.

In Austin Powers (1997), the surname of character Frau Farbissina derives from the Yiddish word פאַרביסן farbissen (verbissen in German), meaning "embittered".

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

Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)

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