Share really interesting trivia.

[Anthropophagus]

About anything. I love interesting trivia/facts.

For instance, most people think urine is stored in the bladder but, for males, pee is actually stored in the balls.

[Dave Miles]

Most people think the sun is powered by nuclear fusion, but the sun is actually powered by electricity

[Gorosaurus]

The platypus does not have a stomach.

[Plopilpy]

Penguins have knees.

[Gorosaurus]

Sharks, as a taxonomical class, are older than trees (assuming we call Archaeopteris a tree, as it still predates formal trees)

[Doog Lord]

Sugar doesn’t make anyone hyper, swimming after eating doesn’t give you cramps, kracking your knuckles too much won’t give you arthritis and you don’t have to wait 24 hours to send a missing person report, it’s actually best to send one before 48 hours.

[Nixon]

so am i supposed to wait over 24 hours or not

[Doog Lord]

Do it as soon as you can

[Gorosaurus]

If time is of the essence, can I fill out such a report in advance? Asking for a future former friend

[Jimmah]

We have a 2nd central nervous system, and this one is in our stomach (i call it my 'tummy brain' - scientists call it something fancier).

This is why our stomach often turns when we see or hear something particularly intense - before our brains can even process it.
It's also why we have that sensation of a 'gut feeling'.
and its why we get butterflies in our stomach when we are anxious (and when we eat butterflies).

Some people, namely myself, also believe that when you do a poop you are removing bad ideas which you have heard recently. The denser the poop, the more badder the ideas.

This is also why you should never swim in poop infested waters because you may ingest bad ideas. Though if you are considering swimming in poopy waters you may have already unknowingly consumed poopy water, so it doesn't matter by that point.

[Anthropophagus]

The human penis is almost entirely made out of hair fibers which the body has repurposed into a dense matrix of fleshy keratin interspersed with muscle fiber and blood vessels. Part of the inner penis hair fibers extend past the skin and become pubes. Pubes are internally rooted in the penis.

[Jimmah]

Originally Posted by Anthropophagus

The human penis is almost entirely made out of hair fibers which the body has repurposed into a dense matrix of fleshy keratin interspersed with muscle fiber and blood vessels. Part of the inner penis hair fibers extend past the skin and become pubes. Pubes are internally rooted in the penis.

do you tell people these things in real life?

[Anthropophagus]

Poop is actually vomit that has fermented longer and lost many of its nutrients to digestion, hence the brown, sickly color. Fresh puke is much brighter, retains more nutrients, and is 90% as beneficial to the body as fresh food. Many starving peoples in third world nations will conserve food by eating it, puking it up, and then eating the puke. They can stretch one loaf of bread across a month by just puking it back up every day and consuming the puke. Some foods deteriorate from stomach acid and are not preserved through the puke process, such as oranges and some cheese.

[Plopilpy]

Please spoiler that shit.

[Shaun]

the reason analog clocks have second hands is because people needed something to look at when they were pretending not to see someone they don't want to talk to. it's basically the pre-phone equivalent of looking at your phone pretending to be busy

[Anthropophagus]

Septic pools, depending on their composition, can actually lack the buoyancy required for swimming. It is possible to drown in such a pool even if you're skilled swimmer, which must be a terrifying death, as one desperately splashes around and simply will not float.

[Anthropophagus]

Dogs have dewclaws which contain a compound that is highly poisonous to humans. Its toxicity is only activated if the dewclaw is ground to dust and exposed to air. In its solid, intact form, it is totally benign and would not hurt you if it were to scratch you.

[Jimmah]

a fart smells because its air which has travelled past the poo in your bottom.

if a fart doesn't smell, you have no poo in your bottom.

[Anthropophagus]

Dude, I'm laughing my ass off because I unironically say that all the time and actually believe it. I realize gas is from food fermenting in the colon, but there's no way it also doesn't pick up some poop on the way out.

[SkooAndBlalex]

There's a cemetery that exists in Romania called The Merry Cemetery that's famous for having colorful, elaborately painted tombstones with poems about the deceased engraved on them.

[Yamles]

In New Zealand it is illegal to plant anything on your personal property unless you are a licensed commercial producer. Gardens are banned to ensure the economic stability of the agricultural sector.

[Autistic British Jackass]

Here’s one, Filthy Frank is Autistic.

[Plopilpy]

Patryk, I don't think that's exactly what this thread is about..

[Dave Miles]

Originally Posted by Yamles

In New Zealand it is illegal to plant anything on your personal property unless you are a licensed commercial producer. Gardens are banned to ensure the economic stability of the agricultural sector.

That’s ridiculous. When I was a landscaper working at apartment complexes, we were instructed to remove any vegetables/ food plants from the gardens but I think that was due to rodents or something, just some dumb bylaw
But restricting an entire country from growing their own food is insane. Don’t they make a lot on exports anyways?

[Hans Grosse]

In the olden times, Cavemen didn't have toilets so they would shit in random places and then they would have to wipe out the cavemen poop using stones.