Thanks Hank Green.
Did you know that, for every snake on Earth, there is one snake dick?
This assumes there is an exact 1:1 ratio of male to female snakes, which is almost certainly not the case.
I think the reference is to male snakes having a forked penis.
Emoticon :) has etymology stemming from emotion + icon. Tis from the 80s, early computer stuff
Emoji 😊 is japanese, from 絵文字 which is like, drawing + character, basically. It’s a word MUCH older than computing.
False cognates. Sound similar, similar function, nothing to do with each other.
My favourite false cognate is the plural ending -s in French and English. The English one has Germanic roots, while the French one come from Latin accusative plural -as/-os. They are unrelated etymologically.
After looking it up I have to correct myself, the Germanic plural - s also come from the accusative plural
There’s a :) in a typewritten cookbook I have from the 40s. I don’t know how widespread smileys were back then, but they existed.
African Wild Dogs decide on when to go hunting by voting. If there is a supermajority of votes in favor of hunting, they will go out and hunt. If that quorum is not reached, they will stay home.
How do they indicate yay or nah
They sneeze!
Amazing they can just like do that on demand like that
I think it’s quiet or sneeze
Another interesting fact: dogs also use sneezing to communicate, though not in the same way. I also easily trained my dogs to indicate yes or no by either licking their lips or not doing anything.
That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…
Dingo Suffrage is my new punk band name
We have a Lemmy instance for this kind of stuff: https://lemmy.world/c/fakebandnames
Count me in.
And a one 🎶 and a two 🎶 and a one, two - one two three four!
Somebody once told me…
One side of the moon is always dark and therefore the other side is always light
I hope this is supposed to be a joke.
For a funner fact: the only time this is not true is during a lunar eclipse, where the Earth’s shadow means the entire moon is in shadow at once
Two, wasn’t it?
The Great Lakes contain enough water to submerge the entire continental United States in nearly 10 feet of water
“If left in the sun, mayonnaise grows hair.”
“If your bra is too tight, it’s uncomfortable. If you’re a boy and your bra is too tight, I’m uncomfortable.” — Lori Beth Denberg, All That
The hard part is getting the mayonnaise into the sun.
If you have two arms, you have a higher than average number of arms.
And if you have one skeleton in your body, you’re below average.
Ha that’s a good one
Well now wait, if pregnant people have four (or more) arms, we’ve got to have more than half as many pregnant people as people missing one or more arms, right?
And what about the 5 arms I have in my freezer?
That is of you count them to be the same body. Genetically that isn’t so.
There is a giant hexagon on the north pole of Saturn.
It’s more evidence that hexagons are the bestagons.
In the movie “Catch Me If You Can”, the french police officer that arrests Leonardo DiCaprio who is playing a young Frank Abagnale Jr. Is Frank Abagnale Jr.
Don’t know that. That’s kind of cool.
Emia means presence in blood.
Magnemia is a nice state
Kevin Spacey’s middle name is Spacey.
And that’s a rock fact.
For anyone else wanting to look this up: yep. His full name is Kevin Spacey Fowler. Not Kevin Spacey Spacey as I thought OP meant.
Who the fuck gives their kid a middle name of Spacey? No wonder he turned out weird.
Middle names are for messing around a bit
I think that is a very recent development.
Your lips and butthole are the two ends of the same tube
Shhh! Diffusion AI might hear you.
Time to screw with stable diffusion
The natural logarithm number e is the most efficient base, Benford’s law shows that a collection of numbers where their logarithms are uniformly and randomly distributed, the probability of the first digit being 1 of any of the numbers is around 30%, and most humans can learn echolocation with some training.
The number of possible combinations of cards in a standard 52 card pack is so large that there is very little chance that any two packs of shuffled cards that have ever existed have ever been in the same order.
52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Chess positions are like that too, after any “main line” it quickly becomes a never played game…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems more realistic to say:
- Playing the same game twice is unlikely because of the number of possible games, OR
- It’s possible the same game has never been played twice, OR
- After a certain number of moves, it’s very possible to create a never-played game
I’m certain I’ve played the same game multiple times, because I suck at chess and I fall into the same obvious traps over and over.
52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Not true, 52! ≈ 8x10^67 < 10^80.
If you divided the universe’s mass into 52! parts, each part would contain ~1x10^13 atoms. Which, as far as solids go, is not visible to the naked eye. Which is still quite mental…
I bet there are certain shuffled combinations that repeat. like, take a new deck, divide perfectly in half, do one perfect riffle. that has probably happened more than once.
How can we even know that?
It’s only in a statistical sense. Combinations based off a few shuffles from a standard sorted deck would be fairly common in practice.
The first part is a matter of probabilities. It’s very unlikely by virtue of the sheer number of possible configurations vs how many times a deck is shuffled in history (even erring on the high side)
For the second part, the composition of elements in most stars is known. And the total mass of the universe is approximated by observing gravitational effects. Which is what you need to work out approx number of atoms.
