Wombats shit is cubic.
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The dog that played specks girlfriend in Pee Wees big adventure is also the same dog that played precious in silence of the lambs.
This feels like one of those fun facts that theatres would have on screen with cheesy background music if you showed up to a movie too early
If presented with an old 2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.
Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.
You're welcome to dial into my Modem on which Doom is listening for a connection at 40c3 :3
Used to do this in payphones as a kid. The numpads were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing. But pulse dialing still worked.
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Fun fact 1: Polish people are honoraribly black after they fought alongside the Haitians against the French (they switched sides as the only reason they were there was because France sent them there)
Fun fact 2: Alaska was almost purchased by Lichtenstein
Fun fact 3: Singapore was given independence against their own wishes
Fun fact 4: Abraham Lincoln read some of the works of Karl Marx as he wrote for his favorite newspaper
The definition of a second is the time it takes for a caesium-133 atom to fluctuate between its two hyperfine ground state 9,192,631,770 times (I did not look the number up).
Congrats 😃👍 btw in that time light in vacuum will travel 299,792,458 metres (didn’t look that up either)
The "brat" in "bratwurst" doesn't come from "braten", which means to fry. It actually comes from the old German word "brät", which means finely chopped meat.
That's so brät
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Grostesques are mythical or fantastical creatures carved into the sides of building. If they have been designed to drain water away from the building, they are called gargoyles .
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The English horn is neither English nor a horn.
Like 15% of people can rumble their ears and make a sound only they can hear
I always just assumed this was a thing anyone could do, Is there some other name for this i can look into?
Auto-Earatic Affixation
It also makes several values in EEG charts go up
Oh thats interesting, i wonder what causes it, the thinking of doing it or actually doing it
I'm convinced people that "can't" just don't know how.
It's the same movement as closing your throat off so you can open your mouth underwater, and you just push "up" past that till it puts pressure on the eustachian tubes, and the rumble is your muscle fibers contracting against that which resonates on your eardrums.
Anyone can do it, it's just hard to explain
That's odd, I can do either of those things independently. Maybe it's just wired that way for some people?
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rats can't vomit flamingos are pink due to diet. otherwise they'd be grey
If they didn't diet they'd be fat and fall over
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A mountain goat is not a goat.
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Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
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A sperm whale penis is 14 feet long.
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For all our differences we still have so much in common.
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Current graphics cards do not yet use enough energy to worry about a kugelblitz occurring in the 12-pin connector.
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