Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 24 Apr

tl;dr

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @NovaRift 24 Apr

Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @NovaRift 25 Apr

Cool fact

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 25 Apr

Very cool

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Hippos can’t swim. Hippos really do have big bones, so big and dense, in fact, that they’re barely buoyant at all. They don’t swim and instead perform a slow-motion gallop on the riverbed or on the sea floor. In fact, hippos can even sleep underwater, thanks to a built-in reflex that allows them to bob up, take a breath, and sink back down without waking.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @denlillaapan 24 Apr

Unbelievable

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

The Moon looks upside down in the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. This means that the ‘Man in the Moon’ is upside down in the Southern Hemisphere and looks more like a rabbit.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @NovaRift 24 Apr

Yeah lol

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @denlillaapan 24 Apr

Nah, actually

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

You can yo-yo in space. In 2012, NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a yo-yo on board the International Space Station and demonstrated several tricks. It works because a yo-yo mainly relies on the laws of conservation of angular momentum to perform tricks, which, provided you keep the string taut, apply in microgravity too.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @NovaRift 24 Apr

Nah, lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Not only plants photosynthesise. Algae (which are not plants) and some other organisms – including sea slugs and pea aphids – contain chlorophyll and can also take sunlight and turn it into an energy source.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 24 Apr

Ok 🆗

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @NovaRift 20 Apr

It all started because of you!!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

You can be heavily pregnant and not realise. Cryptic pregnancies aren’t that uncommon, with 1 in 500 not recognised until at least halfway through and 1 in 2,500 not known until labour starts.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 20 Apr

Yeah yeah, it's all my fault!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Bacteria on your skin cause your itches. Specifically, bacteria known as Staphylococcus aureus can release a chemical that activates a protein in our nerves. This sends a signal from our skin to our brains, which our brain perceives as an itch.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 20 Apr

But this is fun! So.. Thanks!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Starfish don’t have bodies. Along with other echinoderms (think sea urchins and sand dollars), their entire bodies are technically classed as heads.

0 sats \ 21 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 20 Apr

Shit

10 sats \ 16 replies \ @NovaRift 20 Apr

Poster

20 sats \ 14 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 20 Apr

Bully

10 sats \ 13 replies \ @NovaRift 20 Apr

Shit

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Fun fact

Fish form orderly queues in emergencies. When evacuating through narrow spaces in sketchy situations, schools of neon tetra fish queue so that they don’t collide or clog up the line. Scientists interpreted this behaviour as showing that fish can respect social rules even in emergency situations, unlike us humans.

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 20 Apr

FOREVER

20 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 20 Apr

#950478

Let’s see what the judge says

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

You travel 2.5 million km a day around the Sun without realising. The Earth’s orbit travels around 2.5 million kilometres with respect to the Sun’s centre, and around 19 million km with respect to the centre of the Milky Way.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 26 Apr

Somebody has been constipated for 45 days. In 2013, an unfortunate Indian woman had to undergo surgical removal of a faecal mass as large as a football.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 20 Apr

💩

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 20 Apr

It's pudding.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek OP 19 Apr

I'm scared too!

I already have to pay out at least 52.5k sats for the top 5.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @realBitcoinDog 20 Apr

Post

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 20 Apr

Yes

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 19 Apr

plus the value at risk in the bet itself... oooh lord, what have we gotten ourselves into?!