The "Interesting Facts" thread

[Warby]

I thought I'd start a thread where we can share interesting fact we know or just learnt.

We never stop learning. We learn something new everyday and sometimes we learn something that's quite interesting and makes us stop and think, and want to share it.

What interesting fact have you come across recently? Any facts, general knowledge. Not necessarily RC related.
Pictures can help share too.



I'll start.

Did you know, that when a mammals egg cell is fertilised it actually emites a light indicating the start of life. It's called a "zinc spark". A brief flash of light that occurs in mammalian eggs shortly after fertilization. This phenomenon is triggered by the release of zinc ions from the egg cell.

It can be used as a indication of successfully fertilization. The size and frequency of these sparks can be correlated with the egg's ability to develop into a viable embryo.

Here's a video capturing it. It's more obvious in the second half of the video in black n white.

 

[Warby]

The chainsaw was originally invented for surgery for cutting bone.

 

[9x19]

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

 

[Tunedfrog]

Drown a house fly, you can bring it back to life with salt.

 

[Warby]

Drown a house fly, you can bring it back to life with salt.

Handy to know that . CPR not required.
But why would you bring it back to life if you're going to consume it?

 

[9x19]

Handy to know that . CPR not required.
But why would you bring it back to life if you're going to consume it?

Fresh vs slushy?

 

[Tunedfrog]

Handy to know that . CPR not required.
But why would you bring it back to life if you're going to consume it?

We did a science project at school when I was in Jr. high.
The teacher brought some flies in and drowned them.
It really does work.

 

[Warby]

We did a science project at school when I was in Jr. high.
The teacher brought some flies in and drowned them.
It really does work.

So you assaulted asalted them.

 

[jojobeans]

Drown a house fly, you can bring it back to life with salt.

I’ll keep this in mind the next time I have a house fly torture session and want to send it through a perpetual death loop by drowning.

 

[Warby]

Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.

 

[Xraycer]

So you assaulted asalted them.

Yes, I have!

 

[Warby]

Yes, I have!
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Well damn. That's like tightening a 8mm bolt with a 3/4" drive impact gun.

 

[WickedFog]

I’ll keep this in mind the next time I have a house fly torture session and want to send it through a perpetual death loop by drowning.

A friend in art class used to pull a thread out of a sock or something and catch a fly. He would somehow get the fly into the barrel of a clear bic ink pen tube. He'd tie the string loosely around the pen and coax the fly out, and tie the noose around its neck so to speak. Then he'd let the fly go. Just picture a fly with a length of thread dangling from it, struggling to carry it around a classroom.

Another student smashed them and dried them in a book, then glued them to his sketchbook pages and made a comic strip with them. It was hilarous.

Fun fact... the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

 

[Warby]

Fun fact... the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

I have that fear but I don't know how to say it

 

[jojobeans]

Fun fact... the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

 

[Warby]

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[Chubaka]

When you flush a toilet in Australia the water spews out instead of down.

 

[Warby]

When you flush a toilet in Australia the water spews out instead of down.

Flush? We don't have flushing toilets yet. Only just got electricity.

 

[luke66]

Tomorrow, you will be a day older than you are today.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

the average white puffy cloud weights 1.1 million pounds.