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10.4k sats \ 1 reply \ @HODLbitcoin 1 Mar
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
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Never expected, Thanks a lot appreciate it. 🫂🤗
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World War II, the last Japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974

The last fighting soldier surrenders almost thirty years after the conflict ends, there’s something awfully strange about the whole situation.
This is what happened to Teruo Nakamura, an indigenous Taiwanese soldier that joined the Japanese military at the beginning of the war. He assumed the war was still raging on while his unit fled into a jungle in Indonesia. He survived on his own, foraging for whatever food he could until he was finally found in December 1974.
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after thirty years, it's epic. He's going to be my hero :)
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Gandhi wrote a letter to Hitler asking him to be non-violent.
It didn't work.
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I had chills go down my spine.
Here, take my sats
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No way! I was just watching that on the History Channel the other day.
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Ghandi's hunger fasts were 21 days. I wonder what his longest cowboy streak was.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cowboy 1 Mar
Lol😂
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(The following can be offensive to someone) The average pig now has only 16% body fat – lower than the average for people in the UK, and I guess in many other countries.
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Speaking of pigs & humans, there's an intriguing hypothesis that humans originated from a hybridisation between pigs and chimpanzees.
Generally speaking, interspecies hybrids—like mules, ligers (lion-tiger hybrids), or zedonks (zebra-donkey hybrids)—are less fertile than the parents that produced them. However, as McCarthy has documented in his years of research into hybrids, many crosses produce hybrids that can produce offspring themselves. The mule, he notes, is an exceptionally sterile hybrid and not representative of hybrids as a whole. When it comes time to play the old nuclear musical chairs and produce gametes, some types of hybrids do a much better job. Liger females, for example, can produce offspring in backcrosses with both lions and tigers. McCarthy also points out that fertility can be increased through successive backcrossing with one of the parents, a common technique used by breeders. In the case of chimp - pig hybridization, the "direction of the cross" would likely have been a male boar or pig (Sus scrofa) with a female chimp (Pan troglodytes), and the offspring would have been nurtured by a chimp mother among chimpanzees (shades of Tarzan!). The physical evidence for this is convincing, as you can discover for yourself with a trip over to macroevolution.net.
Full explanation of the theory (with lots of interesting detail, even if you remain sceptical), is here :
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Wow, never heard of this!
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In the movie Titanic (1997) the font used on the pressure gauge was designed 45 years after the ship sank. https://www.marksimonson.com/assets/content/notebook/titanic2B.jpg source
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I knew that movie was a joke
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80 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cowboy 1 Mar
The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Suess in the book 'If I Ran to the Zoo.'
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Ants Don't Have Lungs , Also They Never Sleep

Oxygen Enters Through Tiny Holes All Over The Body And Carbon Dioxide Leaves Through The Same Holes
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146 sats \ 0 replies \ @GOAT 1 Mar
Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.
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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 1 Mar
The Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland signed a Lease in 1760 keeping their rent the same for 9,000 years.
They have four acres of prime land in Ireland's capital and will only have to pay £45 ($56) each year.
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Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometres of walkways. This is the largest underground network for any city.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 1 Mar
The Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland signed a Lease in 1760 keeping their rent the same for 9,000 years.
They have four acres of prime land in Ireland's capital and will only have to pay £45 ($56) each year.
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The earth is not flat
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Absolutely no-one in the world believes the earth is flat. There are some ppl however, who like to play a game where they extend the idea out to ridiculous lengths. Then there are ppl on reddit who like to sneer at 'flat-earthers' and consider themselves more enlightened, more rational than such obvious idiots. Meanwhile the 'flat-earthers' maintain their straight faces while laughing on the inside.
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One day in 1975 physics professor Jack H. Hetherington was told that he could not be listed as the sole author of his research paper because it used the words "we" and "our".
He decided not to rewrite the paper, but added as a co-author his cat F. D. C. Willard (Felis domesticus - domestic cat)
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Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song "I Write the Songs."
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183 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitsats 1 Mar
During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 1 Mar
There's a Mickey Mouse slasher movie coming out this month.
It's made possible as it's based on Mickey's Steamboat Willie Disney cartoon that is now out of copyright.
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The Killer whale is the only animal that when seen divers MUST get out of the water, according to the US Navy dive manual, revision 6a.
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In the small town of Dorset, Minnesota, where a new mayor is picked every two years by drawing names out of a hat, a 3 year old named Robert Tufts was elected mayor in 2015
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There is a 'cemetery town' in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1.
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104 sats \ 1 reply \ @SATurDay 1 Mar
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb.
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Working on it
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103 sats \ 1 reply \ @toxic 1 Mar
In the original movie '101 Dalmatians,' there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all 101 Dalmatians as they are shown in 113,760 frames of the film combined.
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I can't fact check this
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Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
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Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
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In Hong Kong, delivery times are primarily influenced by traffic conditions on elevators. It often takes drivers longer to travel vertically than horizontally, as access to elevators is so congested during 'high peak' hours. This is due to the volume of people residing in high rises.
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In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a 'loonie' because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the 'twonie' because it is the equivalent of two 'loonies.'
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The worlds tallest free fall rollercoaster is The Giant Drop located in Australia. The drops is 120 meters which is equivalent to a 39 storey building.
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Did you know that a single brain cell can grow 15,000 connections with its neighbours? This chain reaction of growth ensures the pathway of thought responsible for the behaviour grows strong, thus making it easier to kick this new resource into action in the future.
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Boom!
$GLD held the record for multiple decades for fastest ETF to $10B. Did it in just under 3 years. $IBIT just did it in 7 weeks.
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“In the latter part of the 18th century, the Ohio River became infamous for river piracy, with Cave-In-Rock earning a reputation as the reported hideout of pirate gangs, highwayman and brigands.”
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Historic building in Istanbul:
The whole world knows it as the "Blue Mosque". And if you ask where the "Blue Mosque" is, no local people can point to it. Because its name is "Sultan Ahmet Mosque". No one knows it as Blue in local. 😂
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Linus Torvalds is credited with creating the Linux kernel, though he estimates that only about 2% of the code was written by him. The rest comes from 'open-source' contributors around the world who collaborate. 'Open-source' means that anyone can see the code on which it is written, and help to improve or fix it. Other examples of open source software include Bitcoin, Python, Firefox, and Nostr.
Linus Torvalds is a champion of open-source software and a vocal advocate for the benefits of open software collaboration. He has overseen the development of Linux and managed the global community of developers for decades, ensuring quality and direction, having an untold impact on the entire industry.
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Mantis shrimp are a roughly 4 inch (10cm) long family that use specially adapted spear and club appendages to kill or stun prey. There are two main types of mantis shrimp, spearers and smashers.
The spearers primarily target fish, and snag their prey with jagged claws much like the preying mantis. They are powerful enough to cause painful injuries when handled improperly, and have been nicknamed "thumb splitters" by some.
The smasher variety will prey on hard shelled creatures such as crabs and shellfish. They crack the shells with their clubs and use a less powerful version of the spear afterward. Some of the smashers can produce up to 1500 newtons of force, enough to crack aquarium glass!
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During the witch trials in Europe (16th and 17th centuries), people believed that witches could cast spells on coins, cursing those who carried them. To protect themselves, individuals would carve symbols or initials onto their coins, hoping to ward off any potential magical evils. These were called "witch marks" or "apotropaic marks," and were thought to safeguard the coins' value and protect the carrier from harm.
Is there a digital equivalent to carving onto a bitcoin--just to be sure?
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A Canadian pension fund just sold its 29% stake in this New York office building for $1.
The 26-floor building in Manhattan stands at 360 Park Avenue South and was purchased in 2021 with plans to redevelop it.
The pension fund had already poured $71 million into the property and the building currently has a $220 million mortgage.
Boston Properties, the acquirer of the pension fund's stake, said the project needs "a change in strategy."
Office building prices are down nearly 50% from their highs.
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Siamese cats are naturally all-white (albino), part start to get colored "points" because the enzyme that controls it is heat-sensitive. See the appearance section of the wikipedia article on them.
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Ouch! Pending home sales are officially back below 2008 levels in the US.
January pending home sales fell 6.9% year-over-year and stand right above the record low.
This helps explain why mortgage demand has been down for 5 straight weeks to its lowest level since 1995.
Interestingly, pending home sales fell the most in the South and Midwest, by 7.3% and 7.6% respectively.
However, they climbed by 0.8% in the Northeast and 0.5% in the West.
Housing is simply unaffordable.
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Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower.
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The most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. A 10cm (4 inches) bottle which is covered with diamonds and 24-carat gold costs $71,380.
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