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Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats

531 sats \ 16 comments \ @sn 25 Oct meta bot

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10.1k sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 25 Oct

Cats Have Been to Space

Chosen by scientists out of a trainee class of 13 other cat-stronaut hopefuls, Félicette was loaded into the nose cone of a French Veronique sounding rocket in Algeria, and sent soaring 97 miles (156 kilometers) above the Earth.

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-111717a-felicette-first-cat-space-statue.html

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 25 Oct

75 sats \ 3 replies \ @hasherstacker 25 Oct

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 25 Oct

Get ready for Meme Monday... every Monday! :)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 25 Oct

OK, I zapped this, even though it's not fun...

Did you see this thing I made yesterday? ----> #738766

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker 25 Oct

I think I might have missed your post. Very interesting post. It's really fun to see how people get fooled, without even knowing it.

320 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 25 Oct

Natural Viagra: Spider Bite Causes Erection for Hours

A Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Its venom stimulates an hours-long erection. Now scientists have figured out the chemical that seems to be responsible for the penis boost. In Brazil, emergency room staff can immediately spot the victims of a bite from the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria nigriventer). Patients not only experience overall pain and an increase in blood pressure, they also sport an uncomfortable erection.

https://www.livescience.com/4429-natural-viagra-spider-bite-erection.html

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 25 Oct

Archie was the first search engine on the internet. It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Archie was designed to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives to help users locate specific files. While it was not a web search engine like we have today, it laid the groundwork for the development of search engines that followed.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-was-the-first-search-engine-on-the-internet/

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Oct

Fun fact

For those lazy that do not want / cannot to run his own LN node, you can use Voltz, a custodial solution based on LNbits. Read more here: https://www.lnvoltz.xyz Start your account here: https://lnvoltz.com

You can connect it very easily to your SN account for send and receive, you can have also all wonderful features of a full LNbits server, all for you.

REMEMBER: THIS IS CUSTODIAL But is not different than any other CoinOS, Blink, Alby, Walletano etc.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 26 Oct

Wow, the setup was super easy!.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Oct

You can setup the scrub extension to withdraw all sats to any destination you want.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 25 Oct

There is a stretch of the old US Route 66 that uses custom rumble strips to play America the Beautiful. The song only plays correctly if you drive over it at 45 mph. There have been several other musical highways created elsewhere around the world as well. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/take-drive-down-americas-musical-highway-180958449/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 25 Oct

wouldn't it be nice if all Wars were like this one?

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896, and lasted only 38 minutes. Zanzibar surrendered after just 12 minutes of fighting, and the remaining 26 minutes were spent on ceasefire negotiations.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiatbad 25 Oct

Fun Fact:

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 25 Oct

Canada has the longest coastline in the world

Canada, as a country, has the longest coastline in the world, measuring over 200,000 km. The coastline is surrounded by three oceans and makes up almost 57% of the world’s total coastline.

https://www.ambassadorcruiseline.com/blog/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-canada/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cheerioMsSophie 25 Oct

Garden Observation: Backswimmers Attack a Dragonfly During Egg-Laying

While working in the garden today, I noticed an unusual scene unfolding at the edge of our pond. A dragonfly had come down to lay her eggs, dipping delicately to the water’s surface. As she was focused on her task, a group of backswimmers (small, predatory water bugs that often glide along on their backs) seemed to take an interest.

An Unfortunate Moment for the Dragonfly

The dragonfly, preoccupied with laying her eggs, didn’t seem to notice the backswimmers gathering below. In a sudden move, they closed in, managing to drag her beneath the water's surface. The dragonfly, vulnerable in this brief moment, became their prey.

A Surprising Garden Encounter

It was a surprising sight to witness in the quiet of the garden. I’ve always known about the life around our pond, but watching this interaction up close was a reminder of the hidden, and sometimes brutal, dynamics in nature that happen all around us.