When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
Blue eyes in humans were the result of a mutation. Due to less pigment than average eyes are more sensitive to glare and bright light
My eyes are blue and I have to almost shut my eyes in bright sunlight.
Do your eyes adjust quickly when someone cuts the lights?
It takes about 5 to 10 seconds.
If you own a rig to run local LLMs, your computer can also pretty much run weather prediction softwares
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting — Google DeepMind https://share.google/R24aEDxkDuFfnitzo
This is the most recent one I learnt.
The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.
If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown
The last people on land just have to be a wee bit stronger to keep the tension, then it works out fine.
I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.
jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
I love this demo.
Thankyou! I’ve seen that before, but lost the link. It’s mind-boggling.
Hey, is that fairy cake?
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts.
https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hitchhikers.Guide/08/text.html
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system
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You would guess this is useless info, but I can use this fun fact to remember how many suns the earth has also.
If you took a horse’s large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.
If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you
Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?
The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes
I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.
Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.
Why full circle, though? Is this your last experience with the internet? RIP aeronmelon’s internet experience, 1994-2026
Let’s be honest, it’s been downhill since the Elephant Jokes website.
It’s hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can’t survive a ~10 foot fall. That’s about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.
Wouldn’t you say that they’ll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them
There is no thru line from mouth to urethra. You drink water, it gets absorbed into your blood, your urinary system filters excess water and waste, you pee it out. Your pee is filtered blood, the only thru line for water to take from your mouth is your ass. I understood that when it was taught, but I didn’t really think about it…
Piss comes from blood!
Does the blood god accept pee? Your move, “science”!
So does breast milk
Wow, of course you are correct, I never even thought about that.
Tell that to my body. Fluid goes in, fluid comes out. Explain that.
Ear piercing was a sign of wealth in ancient rome. Having access to hygien to prevent infection was a social distinction
more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today
They had archeologists, kind of wild when you think about it.
Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One “major” was the equivalent to what we would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.
Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.
I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?
It’s the blood that seems to matter more than the organs, and not all organs follow this rule. Kidneys for example don’t really change much.
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?
Useless knowledge.
When playing Mechwarrior 2 on a Windows 2000 system, make sure to change your video mode to 32bit color.
I’ll throw in a useful tip too!
You can buy USB foot switches for your computer and assign keystrokes and other functions to them.
Almost feels like cheating when you are playing a tactical shooter and can lean left or right and strafe on demand without crossing any controls. Having microphone activation, map, inventory, or any number of misc actions boud to a foot pedal makes a huge difference in your ability to play a game.
Probably more difficult if you have pets
Nah, my snakes don’t really mess with the foot pedals.
Further knowledge about Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat:
At various stages in the campaigns, you’ll face off against Elementals, escort a Tarantula, and fight a Battlemaster. Through cheat codes, you can add these to the mech lab and play in them in the “Trial of Grievance” free play mode. The Elemental works fine, it functions as a tiny mech, the Tarantula works mostly correctly, but it isn’t 4-legged. It looks like it is but the front two legs are legally arms, they can be blown off and it works fine. Trying to select the Battlemaster in the mech lab will immediately crash the game.
Cheat codes for Mechwarrior 2 were the very, very first thing I searched the internet for.
Dishonorable conduct, Wetnose.
lol the drill sergeant character who spoke almost entirely un-clanlike, other than occasionally using the term “freebirth”.
I don’t know. Sounds kind of useful to me.
you can’t resurrect a horse
Hell I can’t
Not with that attitude
Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.
But you can beat one long after it dies
“German” chocolate cakes aren’t actually German.
Sind sie Deutsch?
Häagen-Dazs ice cream is from the Bronx, New York.
Depends on what you mean by that. The creator’s last name was German. So really, they are German. Just not the way you are thinking.
It’s the same with Ceasar salad. It’s not the Caesar you are thinking of, but it is still Ceasar. The guy Ceasar from Mexico.
The gorgeous Lunar Moth exits the chrysilys fully formed, without a mouth or other structure for the intake of nutrients. It only exists to fly and breed at that point and expires around a week later.
Man, spends his whole life starving to death.
The people who got anime to take off in the US are the same people who started the furry fandom.
The Superman symbol was based off of the symbol for a sci fi fan club.
Conventions, and sci fi as we know it, are because of one electronics magazine.
The past tense of “surgeons general” is “surgeonsed general”
Past tense of a noun phrase 🤔
Ketchup, or catsup, which is the same word latinized differently, was a fish sauce from China.
The western Europeans and American colonists used the recipe, and expanded it to things like mushrooms and many other ingredients. (for proof, look at the ketchup entry on wikipedia).
Tomato ketchup (which is specified on your bottle still today) wasn’t invented until we realized that tomatoes weren’t poisonous despite their color, and their sweetness and tang totally rocked with the ketchup recipe.
Now we use it to eat frenched fries, which aren’t French! In fact, they are Belgian, and are named because they used a cooking technique invented by the French called “frenching” which has evolved into deep frying.
So, you are dipping your belgian potatoes into a chinese sauce that use a North American fruit as a base.
And with this information, you shall father nations!
That picture of mushroom ketchup is vile.
I bet that would be bomb on roast beef tho
It also took a long time for tomato ketchup sales to take off because it was very difficult to make shelf stable for transporting and selling in stores. Heinz was the first company to make one that sold well. Before that, tomato ketchup was typically made at home if you wanted something vaguely decent.
And in the Philipines, ketchup refers to a banana ketchup, not a tomato ketchup.
Thank you. This sounds like the kind of useless knowledge I can use.
