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Common Sense by Thomas Paine was published 249 years ago today!
@Aardvark eats 50,000 bugs per day!
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Lol, you ain't gonna win it with such a perfect fact.
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Wine facts!
Wine bottles are generally 750 ml (75 cl) and not one litre (1,000 ml). Where does this specification come from?
The capacity of a wine bottle was standardized in the 19th century and the craziest explanations for this fact arose, which corresponded to:
The lung capacity of a glassmaker
Average consumption in a meal
The best capacity to preserve wine
Ease of transport
None of this.
In reality, it is simply a practical organization with a historical basis:
At that time, the main clients of French wine producers were the English, but they never adopted the same system of measurements as the French.
The English unit of volume was the “imperial gallon,” which was equivalent to 4.54609 liters.
To simplify the conversion calculations, they transported Bordeaux wine in 225-litre barrels, i.e., exactly 50 gallons, corresponding to 300 bottles of 750 ml (75 centilitres).
Since the calculation was easier, they adopted the idea that a barrel = 50 gallons = 300 bottles. In this way, a gallon corresponded to 6 bottles. That is why even today, wine boxes usually contain 6 or 12 bottles.
good one! TIL
Fun fact: Last week's fun fact was fact checked!
That fact sounded so awesome and anomalous that I wanted more details having been a bit of an amateur stargazer at one point. Turns out it was just a viral lie.
Please don't add another SN bot for fact checking. I am getting tired of stupid bots.
There should be a new event: feisty fib Fridays
We need a fact checker!
I heard Facebook may have just let a few out into the market.
and that's a fact!
Also, I've been sitting on this ALL WEEK wanting to share, but I new @grayruby would be proud if I had the discipline to wait and do it right.
There are around 5.6 million vending machines in operation in Japan. To put that into perspective, there are more vending machines in Japan, than people living in New Zealand. That’s one vending machine per 23 people in Japan.
https://karryon.com.au/industry-news/destination/vending-machines-8-things-you-can-buy-on-the-go-in-japan/
sad... not with sats
The bluehead crasse can ejaculate more than 10 times a day and undergo sex change during their life, i.e. females can become male. Sometimes triggered by a parasite.
Almost like humans xD
Those astronauts are still stuck in space.
aka green room
https://video.nostr.build/e4f27719e403247097625d35b02866b2fade9cbdd11eab089f184f25cc6af095.mp4
NASA:
Not
A
Space
Agency
at least is fun to watch them how they try to fake it :)
Sports fact for yiu.
Football teams (soccer for those in the US) wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel.
A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams wearing a red kit consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other colour.
@Car is Raiders fan.
Gaining citizenship by being born in a country is almost strictly a thing done in the Americas. Europe, Asia, and most of Africa only allow you to get citizenship by blood (aka your parents). This likely addresses the issue of people coming to the US, Canada, etc to give birth since the parents or a parent needs to be a citizen.
Based on the word citizen taken from the Anglo-French world “citesein”, meaning “city-dweller”, where “dweller” refers to a “bonded slave living in a property owned by their master”.
A group of bonded slaves, indebted to the church, live in “sin” or within a city making them a “city-sin”.
The origin of the word citizen, spelt with “zen” may refer to the “entrapment of the mind” that makes you a “slave to the city”.
When entering the ship of the citizens, you have given up your sovereign status and are under the authority of a governing body, and must abide by all the rules.
In other words... "what citizenship offer?" it means a single thing: SLAVERY.
but ofc a gov cuck will promote slavery
In the original Peter Pan Tinkerbell likes to call people "silly ass." It has led to problems for children's theaters.
If you are young, this is one of the most important charts to understand.
Dollar cost averaging and holding for long periods of time is undefeated for 200 years. Bitcoin is like rocket fuel if you add that!
ferns sabotage each other’s sperm with hormones to gain an advantage over other ferns.
Owls cannot move their eyes!
view on youtu.beOwls have fixed eye sockets, meaning their eyes are not spherical but more tube-shaped and cannot move in their sockets. To compensate for this, they have evolved the ability to turn their heads up to 270 degrees horizontally and 90 degrees vertically, allowing them a wide range of vision without needing to move their bodies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibulo-ocular_reflex
This is how a giraffe drinks water!
Giraffes have to awkwardly splay their long legs and bend their necks all the way down just to take a sip of water! Their tall bodies make it tricky, but this stretchy stance helps them reach the ground without tipping over.