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Yesterday, September 26th, a category 4 hurricane named Helene made landfall in the USA.
In 1958, a category 4 hurricane named Helene scraped the USA, beginning on what day?

Yup, September 26th.

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They tell me there's a list for tornado names? To me, they're all just plain old mike
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I bet you are not this persistent!
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 27 Sep
Catatumbo, Venezuela, where the lightning never stops.
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Vitamin D does not come from the SUN. It comes from our skin.

What is vitamin D?

Vitamin D is not one chemical but many. The natural type is produced in the skin from a universally present form of cholesterol, 7-dehydrocholesterol. Sunlight is the key: Its ultraviolet B (UVB) energy converts the precursor to vitamin D3. In contrast, most dietary supplements are manufactured by exposing a plant sterol to ultraviolet energy, thus producing vitamin D2. Because their function is almost identical, D2 and D3 are lumped together under the name vitamin D — but neither will function until the body works its magic (see figure).

How your body makes vitamin D

The sun's energy turns a chemical in your skin into vitamin D3, which is carried to your liver and then your kidneys to transform it to active vitamin D.
The first stop is in the liver, where vitamin D picks up extra oxygen and hydrogen molecules to become 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH)D. This is the chemical that doctors usually measure to diagnose vitamin D deficiencies. But although 25(OH)D is used for diagnosis, it can't function until it travels to the kidney. There it acquires a final pair of oxygen and hydrogen molecules to become 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D; scientists know this active form of the vitamin as 1,25(OH)2D, or calcitriol, but for ordinary folks the name vitamin D is accurate enough.
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Truly a myth buster! I'm surprised. I used to think how dk they capture vitamin D in the tablets. It's more surprising because I had a deficiency since childhood my medicine included a lot of vitamin D and everyone suggested me to get it from the sun.
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I was also surprised when I came to know it. It's one of those things people just agree, perhaps it's more scientific.
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If this doesn't win now, I'll never post in bounties ever again.
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If you work outside, your reward is vitamin D, so worth the effort 🤣
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It cracks me up when people think the sun is a vitamin D dispenser.
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Same, same…
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It's too funny for everyone to say so. 😂
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In Germany, prisoners who have escaped jail will not be charged any additional penalty for their escape.

This is because the German state acknowledges that it is simply human nature to want to be free. If a prisoner were to be punished for their escape it would be considered a violation of their human rights. However, due to the use of CCTV cameras, motion sensors, and barred windows, it is actually very difficult for German prisoners to escape in the first place.
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WoW! I've always dug the German mindset.
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One litter of kittens can have multiple “father” cats.

I've often wondered how a litter of kittens look so strikingly different from each other. Perhaps this is the reason? I never knew this!
Because female cats release multiple eggs when they are in heat, they can become pregnant with kittens from more than one “father” cat at the same time!
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Solid list of facts. Nice share!
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So, some of them are only half-related. Neat!
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I can feel it! Believe me.
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Ohh really! Are you in the states right now? Why not join us here, we can still buy 350 kilograms of wheat grain in $100. 😜
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350 kg of wheat is a real struggle, but I reckon I could lift 350 kg of cotton.
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I'll lift a 351kg of cotton then ;). Do you get 350kg of cotton in $100?
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U.S. cotton futures traded around 74 cents per pound. $117 :)
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Actually this is what happened because "A fellow user took Hanyecz up on the offer, paying $25 to order the two pizzas and receiving 10,000 bitcoins (then worth around $41) in return."
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I miss your children’s wacky contributions
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I will try to get them to enter next week.
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Will watch out for it
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Humans have an entirely unique fingerprint for their tongue! Just like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different. Though it’s not commonly used for identification, the texture and pattern of each person’s tongue is distinct, making it a potential biometric identifier just like fingerprints or retinal scans.
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Crack was distributed to the black communities by Rick Ross and was shown how to make it by the CIA
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 27 Sep
And then he bought a bunch of Wingstop franchises
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💀10,000 sats
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Walnuts are the oldest known tree food — they date all the way back to 10,000 BC.
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The Big Ben clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on 27 May 2005, probably due to an extremely high temperature of 31.8 degrees Celsius.
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Fun fact: Facts are fungible.
The "Fun Fact Friday" competition on Stacker News is completely arbitrary. There is no such thing as a "better fact".
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One could even say rigged. (as I learned recently you can have multiple accounts on SN and so zap your own stuff)
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11.1k sats \ 11 replies \ @Natalia 27 Sep
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This is a wasp, looks like a German yellowjacket. Not sure where you are, but now in Europe adult wasps are essentially waiting for death to come, they are desperate and take any sugars they find and, apparently, ham too 🤣
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Ahha!
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If you don't see these bees all the time, you might think they're the same. I can tell them apart from a mile away :)
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Golu 27 Sep
Can you confirm it's a bee?
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What I struggle with is this thing in the photo called ham 🤣
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So the top post in the facts bounty is not a fact because it is a wasp 🤔😅
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Well, this doesn’t change the point of the fact that much, or? I mean, I don’t think it’s a funny fact anyway but then there are many others who may see it differently.
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