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That Mark Zuckerberg holds several records for most fists shoved inside a human body at once
California has the same population as Australia.
Doesn’t it have a much bigger population than Aus? Wikipedia says that California has about 39 million people and Australia only 27 million.
That’s even more insane
They may have mixed up the British commonwealth. Canada has a similar population to California
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And over twice the GDP.
I thought california had much more
Australia feels like a small country stretched around the perimeter of a genuinely impressive quantity of absolutely nothing.
Like a donut with a very spicy hole
The great sand croissant.
As an American, I’ll take the Mojave over the Outback any day.
Printer ink costs more per milliliter than human blood.
“Wow you signed the document in blood, you must be really hardcore.”
“No I’m just cheap.”
A few of my favorite fun facts are geography related.
The pacific side of the Panama canal is further east than the Atlantic side.
If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you’ll hit is Canada.
Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles
omg la is east of reno what is happening rn
If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you’ll hit is Canada.
There’s also Angle Inlet, Minnesota which is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel. To travel to Angle Inlet by road from other parts of Minnesota, or from anywhere in the United States, requires driving through Manitoba, Canada. It’s a really weird border.
All borders are weird
Due to its high latitude and being in the middle of a continent, it is a contender for the most extreme winters in the contiguous United States.
Two square miles & 54 residents in North Bumblefuck, separated from the rest of the US by 60 miles. It’s an affront to reason.
Having lived somewhere with constant tourists… I get it.
70% of Canadians live south of the 49th Parallel, the northern border of the US.
by weight, theres more non-human DNA in you than human.
Wait. Please explain. How is DNA inside me, a verifiable human, not human?
youre mostly bacterial dna
It’s DNA from bacteria that live inside you.
Bacteria technically live in the tube of “outside” on your inside. Digestive system is just one hole all the way through the body that your body interacts with just like the air in the lungs.
Your poop is on the outside of your body
U got bugs in ur poop.
Your gut flora
I read that comes don’t actually eat grass. They have the extra stomachs, and the first stomach is basically a bacteria reactor that feeds on chewed up plant matter. As the bacteria reproduce they get sent to the next stomach which is what actually gives nutrients
we all know what you do when you visit the zoo.
were those giraffes looking thirsty, hmmm?There’s a LOT of e. coli up your ass.
Put more delicately, you are a great big multicellular eukaryote, each of your cells has (or had, in the case of red blood cells) an inner chamber called the nucleus, and you’re full of mitochondria and other organelles. Your body is covered and filled with other organisms, many of them simple, tiny little single cell prokaryotes which make a living helping their gigantic, complicated host function. Like all the bacteria in your intestines that help you digest food. Their cells outnumber yours by a wide margin.
I have heard that this is more true for some people in Tijuana.
A somewhat political fact, but one that made some of my friends dumbfounded:
When a bank issues a loan, it generates that money literally out of thin air and credits that money to the loan account rather than using deposits they already had. For example, if you want to borrow $100,000, the banker approves the loan and doesn’t hand over cash or move existing money around - instead, they just go on their system and credit your account with the sum, that’s it.
Which is why a “run on the Bank” or “Bank run” is unsustainable for Banks these days.
While I think your point is true that its much more abstract than people realize. When I worked at a bank and we disbursed loans and credited/debited fees it was from “GLs” (General Ledger?) which were basically just separate accounts to help keep track. Like we had a “member service” one which was for basically anything with good reason. One time someone did a very large amount but he just basically got told to do it a different way.
Its all just in a computer. I could’ve accidentally credited someone a million dollars but it would’ve been realized when I tried to close my drawer and balance everything out. And the branch would have to be balanced at the end of the day so I assume the bank did as well.
On a related note banks take out loans from other banks. I think a lot of people don’t realize that banks have savings accounts so they have money to lend.
As of March 2020 the reserve requirement for banks in the US is 0%.
What the fuck, who changed that? Seems like a horrible idea.
The Fed Board, apparently: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
After reading through that page and the FAQ, I think it’s because the banks should now be compelled to held reserves because Fed pays them a reasonable interest (close to what they would get if they give a very low-risk loan) on them, rather than it being a strict requirement. I don’t know enough about economics to have an opinion on whether it’s a good idea, but I feel like it’s not too horrible? Like, maybe it makes some shitty banks even more susceptible to bank runs, but that’s the reality of fractional reserve banking in general.
There are more trees on earth by far than there are stars in the galaxy.
I had to looks this one up, but missed the “galaxy” vs “universe”. There are an estimated 3 trillion trees, 100-400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy, but potentially 1 septilliom stars in the universe.
However all three of these are estimates, so who actually knows.
I’m not sure where these numbers are from, but my guess is that you mean the Observable Universe, which is just the part of the universe that we can see.
We don’t know how big the full universe is, it could be infinite with an infinite number of stars.
Just some quick Google searches so not sure how reputable, but didn’t feel like copying random links.
But yeah, that’s why I called them out as estimates as I suspect there is a lot of room for error in those numbers.
Rojava exists.
The one I say themost is probably that there are 10 times as many germ cells in your body as human cells, but due to their size it is only around 8 pounds of your weight.
But the one I love the most is that there are more unique ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are grains of sand on Earth.
The fax machine predates the (first) American Civil War.
Dude did you need the “(first)”? I’m really trying to be optimistic this morning x.x
Sorry, dark humor is the only kind I have left.
Bees kill invaders in their nest by climbing all over them and shaking their bodies.
…and boiling them to death with their combined body heat.
There are more atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system
That’s…pretty believable.
Sharks are older than both trees and the north star
Had to look this up- you are indeed correct. The North Star is at most 67 million years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris
Both trees?
Yes, both of them at the double tree inn obviously
Laurelin and Telperion
Yeah Twin Pines Ma— I mean Lone Pine Mall.
Piney and Sticks
James Blunt possibly prevented the start of World War 3. (But became best known for the song You’re Beautiful. Reality is weird.)
Care to expand on that one? I know he’s ex military but haven’t heard anything like that before.
It’s explained on his Wikipedia page. He was an Army captain in the Kosovo War, when a NATO commander (Wesley Clark, who later ran for President) ordered his unit to secure Pristina Airport, which Russian troops had already occupied. Blunt refused to engage them, long enough for the British general get involved to countermand the order, on the grounds that he didn’t want his men to start WW3.
Well damn. That’s a pretty cool thing to do. Thanks for sharing.
If you travel due south from Detroit the first foreign country you will hit is Canada.
Takes flight to Detroit Airport, starts heading south: “Canada here I come!”…
