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  1. Thread qa-74491

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      Does /qa/ know any fun facts?

      One I just learned is that copper is actually more dense than iron.

    2. Post 87290
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      1 sperm candle = 1.14 HK

    3. Post 87476
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      No.87476

      John Napier Invented the Logarithm in 1614

    4. Post 87733
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      The longest year in history was 46 BC, which lasted 445 days. This oddly long year was on account of Julius Caesar extending the year so that the seasons would stay constant over time, as the Winter solstice was occurring in the summer months. This was also the year of the introduction of the Julian calendar, the basis of our mondern calendar system. The Julian calendar would remain in usage until 1582 when it was superseceded by the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. Despite this, the Gregorian calendar is a minor revision, only changing the average year length from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days.

    5. Post 87734
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      >>87476
      I'm honestly surprised it wasn't Euler.

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      Bottom line Tap water is as good as sterile saline solution to irrigate simple lacerations before repair.

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      Anonymous
      No.87780

      >>87779
      >before repair.
      Strange way to phrase "bandaging/topical medication"

    8. Post 87810
      Anonymous
      No.87810

      Teeth can actually heal minor decay over time so long as the decay is not extensive and hasn't broken through to the dentin or inner layer of the tooth.

    9. Post 89269
      Anonymous
      No.89269

      Was looking around at human eye stuff and apparently human eye color differences are from this and not pigment differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effect
      It's a "structural color". The pigment is actually brown, but the cellular structure bounces it around and it looks blue or green to an observer. This is how it is for peacock tails, too, although birds do have a variety of "real" pigment colors.
      Huh. Biology really is amazing.

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      Anonymous
      No.89270

      >>89269
      That's also true for plants as well. If I'm remembering correctly, there's only one plant that actually has natural blue pigment. The rest only appear blue due to that phenomenon.

    11. Post 89534
      Anonymous
      No.89534

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres

    12. Post 89540
      Anonymous
      No.89540

      Queen Elizabeth II is the only remaining head of state who served in WW2.

    13. Post 89551
      Anonymous
      No.89551

      >>89540
      I'm not sure you can really call what the queen does "serving". She reigns.

    14. Post 89557
      Anonymous
      No.89557

      >>89540
      8 POPES
      1 QUEEN

    15. Post 89563
      Anonymous
      No.89563

      >>89551
      No, she actually served as a truck driver/mechanic. She was not queen then.

    16. Post 89564
      Anonymous
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      >>89563
      Sorry, I read "served since WW2".

    17. Post 89725
      Anonymous
      No.89725

      >>89557
      Popes start old though it's a miracle one of them even lives 10 years.
      It was always a pain in the ass having to keep track of those guys in Crusader Kings when I was weighing in mentally the real cost of buying their loyalty versus how old they are.

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      Snow Leopards aren't actually Leopards, Snow Leopards are actually a sister group of the Tiger with the ancestors of the Snow Leopard breaking of from the Tiger.

      Ohh, and while I mention this, clouded leopards aren't Leopards either, also Leopard Cats are not Leopards.

    19. Post 89879
      Anonymous
      No.89879

      And also Leopard seals aren't Leopards either.

    20. Post 89883
      Anonymous
      No.89883

      sea horses might not look like it but they in fact aren't large bodies of salted water

    21. Post 89884
      Anonymous
      No.89884

      die sagers

    22. Post 89885
      Anonymous
      No.89885

      live sagers

    23. Post 89890
      Anonymous
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      >>89884
      The sagers

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      https://www.brickbending.com/
      very discouraging website

    25. Post 89929
      Anonymous
      No.89929

      >>89884
      >>89885
      >>89890
      None of these are fun facts. Consider not posting next time.

      >>89926
      Interesting, but not a fun fact.

    26. Post 89947
      Anonymous
      No.89947

      The velociraptors in the Jurassic park Franchise are not actually velociraptors, they are dromaeosaurs. Kemono Friends does not have a velociraptor so I can't show you what one actually looks like.

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      >>89947

    28. Post 89951
      Anonymous
      No.89951

      >>89948
      I too would prefer her bag of meat over the two slices on her hand.

    29. Post 89952
      Anonymous
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      >>89951
      That's not a fun fact, that's a creepy perv fact. >>89929 isn't going to be happy when he sees this.

    30. Post 89975
      Anonymous
      No.89975

      Aesop's Fables was the only book in existence to be excluded from the expulsion of Western books in Edo Japan.

    31. Post 89978
      Anonymous
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      >>89975
      westaboos at it again

    32. Post 90045
      Anonymous
      No.90045

      >>89975
      shogunate approved!

    33. Post 90094
      Anonymous
      No.90094

      japanese people sleep in the closet

    34. Post 90339
      Anonymous
      No.90339

      The return message to a "PING" command is called a "PONG". PING... PONG.

    35. Post 90815
      Anonymous
      No.90815

      The world hiccup champion had a hiccup for 69 years.

    36. Post 90828
      Anonymous
      No.90828

      >>90339
      ah, I see you have the machine that goes `PING'. This is my favourite.

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      apparently falcons are much genetically closer to things like cockatoos and parakeets than they are eagles.

    38. Post 92132
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      No.92132

      Childhood anemia increases the chance of childhood leukemia.

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      This button that appears in some UI stuff is called the hamburger menu

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      You are alive for a few seconds after your head gets decapitated, until oxygen stops going to your brain.

    41. Post 93289
      Anonymous
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      A kiwis egg is massive, taking up around 20% of the birds mass. When the bird hatches it is has everything it needs and retains nutrients from the egg enough to last it enough time to figure things out in its own

    42. Post 93618
      Anonymous
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      With the estimation for the number of particles in the observable universe being 10^80 (or 10^89), you could write one digit of a googolplex (10 ^ (10^ 100)) on each particle in the universe and still run out of space to write the whole number.
      Made me realize the fact that there are infinitely many numbers that even if you had the ability to write would be limited by the size of the entire universe!

    43. Post 93622
      Anonymous
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      >>93618
      What do you mean by “size”? Are you referring to the space occupied by or the number of particles in the visible universe? Considering the set of all real numbers, your realization requires space to be quantized. If space is continuous then you can create a function mapping every real number to some portion of space. As even though, the total space is a finite number, the cardinality of the set including 0 to any real number is the same as that of all the real numbers.

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      >>93622
      Right, I meant the number of particles.

    45. Post 93797
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      Chinese characters (and as a result, kanji) are pretty much the same thing as hieroglyphs. They used to be more self-explanatory even. Their modern version is needlessly complicated in comparison.

    46. Post 93798
      Anonymous
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      >>93797
      I'm sure the modern eye is used to identify the ancient spiky form of 'hill'(rather mountain) as grass or fire or crown(unornamented).

    47. Post 93799
      Anonymous
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      >>93797
      just at a glance, the modern characters are much faster to write

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      >>93797
      More precisely, they are logographs, like that of early cuneiform and mayan glyphs as well. Though, a huge difference between chinese characters and other systems is their deep-seated dislike of using characters purely for their phonetic value, so Gardiner's sign list included a mere 763 egyptian hieroglyphs compared to the 2999 totalled today by the jouyou and jinmeiyou kanji.
      >needlessly complicated in comparison
      ALLOW ME
      TO QUOTE
      A beautiful fragment from the introduction to Léon Wieger's most excellent 1915 Chinese Characters, Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification: A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents:

      >2. Causes of the gradual transformation of characters. — The first to be noticed, is the complete change in the instruments and material used for writing. The ancients wrote with a sort of fountain-pen, upon small laths of bamboo or smooth wooden tablets.
      >Such an instrument traces lines any way it is moved, either backwards or forwards, straight or curved, as one likes, but all equally thick.

      >Not long after the catalogue of Li-ssu was edited, Ch’éng-miao invented a pencil of soft wood, ending in a fibrous point, which being dipped in the black varnish, was used for writing on silk strips. Traced with this coarse instrument on a rough material, the rounded figures became square, the curved lines were broken at right angles. But this ungraceful writing being quicker than with the fountain-pen, the wooden pencil was adopted for public deeds, and the li-tzu or official hand, became the current writing, while the lesser seal characters remained the classical writing.

      >As it commonly happens, the way being opened, inventions succeeded one another. During his campaigns against the Huns, the general Meng-t'ien is said to have invented or improved the writing-brush, the ink and the paper. This invention was fatal to the characters. — A writing-brush cannot trace lines against the hair, therefore many characters could not be written and were replaced by arbitrary and fanciful sketches. — The materials used further helped to increase the confusion. Paper is absorbent: hence came the thick strokes, the thin strokes and the slabbery letters, which were all unknown to the ancients. — A writing brush, made with stiff and elastic hair, flattens out when pressed down, twists when turned, projects its point when raised up; hence the swellings, the joints, the crooks, which are not intentional, are due to the instrument itself. — Therefore the actual classical writing chieh-tzu, represents the hsiao-chuan as transformed by the writing-brush.

      >There is more. The writing-brush galloping, the strokes were connected up, giving birth to the lien-pei-tzu; then it flew, throwing on the paper misshapen figures, which are called ts'ao-tzu. The fancy for these novelties became a rage. At the beginning of the Christian era, a man believed himself dishonoured if he wrote in a legible way. In this crisis, the initiative of a private scholar saved what could still be saved.

      >>93799
      Not always, the ancient form of 日 was easier to write than something like Ó, just a circle with a dot, while 月 and 耳 were utterly butchered.

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      P.S: super early chink doodles were the weirdest thing ever. Lovecraftian, even.

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      >>93797

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      The first animated feature film and the first animated film with sound were both made in Argentina.
      https://www.damninteresting.com/drawing-the-shorter-straw/

    52. Post 95010
      Anonymous
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      >>93805
      it could be intentional but these remind me of stuff from Mushishi

    53. Post 98896
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      The first message sent on the internet was "lo". It was meant to be "login" but it crashed after the first two letters.

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      >>98896
      Seems like a divine statement at work more than an error to me.

    55. Post 99550
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      No.99550

      Most materials are RF transparent or interact very weakly, but water interacts very strongly. So, if you're ever microwaving something and are finding the heating lackluster: very slightly dampening it can improve the heating a lot.

    56. Post 99568
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      Today the human population of Earth has reached 8 Billion.

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      >>99568
      and that's a BAD thing

    58. Post 99570
      Anonymous
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      >>99569
      Nothing will be done about it though

    59. Post 99573
      Anonymous
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      >>99569
      the most cheerful and optimistic Finn

    60. Post 101493
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      The process of making the fanciest wines in the world is befittingly as intensive and precise as one would expect:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trockenbeerenauslese

      This is the highest sweetness level of wine that you can find. Even if you look outside of wine and consider fruit beverages in general, it's probably naturally the sweetest drink by far. To even start to produce this special kind of wine requires the year's climate be in a vineyard's favor, meaning there's many years that it can't even be produced (although it's become around supposedly every 2/5 years as apposed to around once a decade because of climate change). Why a good year is required is due to the noble rot that's required for the sweetness of the grapes to manifest itself best. In a year where there's lots of moisture the rot turns into grey rot and destroys the crop.

      Given that you have a good location and year to grow such grapes, there's still additional challenges to get a bottle of tba wine. As once the grapes are afflicted with noble rot they become shriveled almost like a raisin. Making the extraction process more challenging, and the overall amount of grapes needed to produce a full bottle rise exponentially. Even after all this, there's still a greater level of scrutiny one can use to discern the quality of a tba with which vineyard it came from. Like which river the vineyard lay on, and the mineral content of the soil/soil quality from which the grapes are grown.

      To me, one of the most interesting parts of this all is that the production of this type of wine has been tradition for hundreds of years at this point. Which stands as a testament to humanity's ingenuity and creativity when it comes to making better food/drinks for itself.

    61. Post 101500
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      >>101493
      nice fact

    62. Post 102362
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      When looking through danbooru tags I learned that the seiza, the elegantly painful traditional Japanese sitting position that foreigners can't maintain was recognized as an "immoral punishment" if parents forced their kids to do it. I think that means it's illegal now since it mentioned child abuse?
      https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/04/national/social-issues/japanese-sitting-style-recognized-punishment-new-law/

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      >>102362
      The example was specifically "you were messing around with something important (implying there may have been some damage to it), so now you must sit in seiza for a long period of time"

      With "long period of time" being the key, and also the use as a punishment. The law appears to be a prohibition on punishments that cause physical pain or discomfort. I don't think it would be applicable to something like making your kids sit in seiza at a funeral service.

      https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASMD35HCLMD3UTFK00Y.html

    64. Post 102369
      Giant Armadillo
      No.102369

      >>102362
      I can sit like this with all the abuse I've put my knees through but apparently expecting children to do it is unreasonable hmm

    65. Post 102612
      Axis Deer
      No.102612

      There's a Classical Chinese Wikipedia, alongside Latin, Sanskrit, and... Old Church Slavonic, wow. That one I didn't expect. Here's the full list, it's a long one:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

    66. Post 102616
      Rockhopper Penguin
      No.102616

      >>102612
      I think AI will make this even more insane

    67. Post 104284
      Anonymous
      No.104284

      Peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes like lentils or chickpeas, and the Catholic Church is female.

    68. Post 104287
      Anonymous
      No.104287

      >>104284
      >the Catholic Church is female
      Female as in a feminine noun?

    69. Post 104291
      Anonymous
      No.104291

      >>104287
      Ayup, always referred to as "she".

    70. Post 104292
      Anonymous
      No.104292

      >>104291
      That's strange. I've only ever it referred to as "the Church," never with a gendered pronoun.

    71. Post 104293
      Anonymous
      No.104293

      >>104292
      Yeah, but in scripture and other religious texts she's female. Here's an excerpt from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
      >Through Tradition, "the Church, in her doctrine, life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes."

    72. Post 104338
      Anonymous
      No.104338

      >>104293
      It's not exclusive to Catholics.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Christ

    73. Post 104340
      Anonymous
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      >>104338
      Ahh, just the church in general, makes sense.

    74. Post 104501
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      I learned that a game mechanic has a name: the Ubisoft Tower:
      https://www.videogamer.com/news/assassins-creed-creator-says-hes-slightly-sorry-about-the-ubisoft-tower-craze/
      https://www.vg247.com/exploring-and-uncovering-the-dreaded-ubisoft-tower
      https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowsNestCartography
      If you're playing an open world game, but the game uses focal points to guide the player to specific locations to unlock something to make navigation easier, or even possible at all, it's called a "Ubisoft Tower" after the company that made the Assassin's Creed games.
      I'd say Elden Ring has them because you start with a dull, primitive map and to upgrade it you need to visit the locations marked on it to grab "map fragments" to get a far more functional map

    75. Post 106520
      Anonymous
      No.106520

      There's a few informal English interjections that come from closing the mouth at the end, causing a /p/ to be inserted:
      yeah -> yeap
      no -> nope
      well -> welp
      Of course you already know them, but it's funny that the change comes from just not opening your mouth enough hehehehehhe

    76. Post 106522
      Anonymous
      No.106522

      Oh, and Wiktionary mentions in many entries when an introduced word replaced a native one.
      Here's an advanced search for English ones:
      https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&search=English+%22Displaced+native%22&advancedSearch-current={%22fields%22:{%22phrase%22:%22\%22Displaced%20native\%22%22,%22plain%22:%22English%22}}

    77. Post 106541
      Anonymous
      No.106541

      Boch Bach and Handel(best known for the Hallelujah chorus) were blind at the end of their lives and both were treated by the same doctor who turned out to be an occult charlatan who only worsened their condition.

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      I decided to read up on locusts and they're very interesting. Some interesting facts:
      - Locust is simply latin for "grasshopper"
      - There is no "taxonomic distinction" between grasshopper and locust, the only difference is whether they're capable of swarming
      - Locusts change form when it's time to swarm- serotonin is released if they bump into other locusts at a certain rate within a certain time period which induces physiological and behavioral changes
      - The swarming form is called "gregarious" instead of solitary, because they instinctually seek out of other locusts
      - The stages of the swarming are, in order: outbreak, upsurge, plague

      Previously I had thought swarming was just a simple occurrence of locusts flying to new areas to feed, but it's quite involved. Huh, that's cool

    79. Post 111428
      Anonymous
      No.111428

      In a completely degenerate electron gas, pressure is no longer dependent on temperature. This fact helps explain how stellar objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs can cool down without shrinking. The pressure from electron degeneracy doesn't increase the temperature/come from the temperature but from the degenerate pressure, which prevents these stars from shrinking while still losing heat.

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      >>111424
      Reminds me of all the different ant species that do things like herding other insects, growing fungi, or taking slaves. It did make me wonder, a lack of taxonomic distinction would mean that either this particularly complex type of behavior was convergently developed multiple times, or lost by most species. This paper posits the latter, that it may be an ancestral trait:
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07105-y
      >>111428
      That's a very complex fact.

    81. Post 111879
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      The US now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and more natural gas than Russia, and now is a significant exporter of both. Most of that production goes towards domestic consumption however.

    82. Post 111882
      Anonymous
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      and Alberta hit it's lowest oil production in a while. Seems like a political move if anything to appease the "made in the USA" voices.
      Can vs US dollar low enough for me to be getting good deals on exported skilled labour

    83. Post 111919
      Anonymous
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      A lot of fediverse instances got pwned and users are being mass doxed

    84. Post 111922
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      >>111919
      Is that really a fun fact?

    85. Post 111925
      Anonymous
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      >>111919
      Surely people aren't putting readily identifiable information on these...

    86. Post 113323
      Anonymous
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      >>86780
      >>86781
      The bison should roam free.

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1hzatoE1tg

      Ivory soap balloons when you microwave it because it's so airy.

    88. Post 129017
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      I thought this thread archived.

      >The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States.
      It seems like Western/Southern USA is extremely hot. It's 42°C (108°F) in Las Vegas right now. I heard about car plates and shoes melting in Arizona before as well.

    89. Post 129018
      Anonymous
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      >>129017
      I thought it's 70 degrees celsius somewhere in Iran.

    90. Post 129245
      Anonymous
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu

    91. Post 129249
      Anonymous
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      >>129245
      a cheese that is maggot poop

    92. Post 129251
      Anonymous
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      >Texelse schapenkaas. This cheese was made in the 16th and 17th centuries on the island of Texel. One of the more surprising ingredients was the juice of boiled sheep’s poo which gave it is characteristic colour (green) and taste (sharp). It also helped keep the cheese. This practice was discontinued in the 1930s but you can still buy the poo-less variety.

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      >>129249
      scary surprise box....

    94. Post 129255
      Anonymous
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      >>129252
      that surprise box just bit this shab

    95. Post 129265
      Anonymous
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      >>76956
      Ooo, there's a video of it on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqW7MB5Dmo

    96. Post 130249
      Anonymous
      No.130249

      Gingerol is a bioactive compound found in ginger that has many potential health benefits

    97. Post 134697
      Anonymous
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      kawaii means cute in japanese

    98. Post 134709
      Anonymous
      No.134709

      I just discovered swfchan has over a dozen flashes & loops from 2000s 2ch.ru scrapped, I don't think even Russians remember that was a thing.

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      >>134709
      This sent me on a deep dive on russian imageboard lore. Turns out dvach/iichan culture got so prolific they even produced their own katawa shoujo type VN using site mascots.

      >Бесконечное Лето
      >"endless (newfag) summer"
      cheeky fucks

      it makes me wonder... site mascots are strangely missing from kissu and related sites.

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      >>134715
      >site mascots are strangely missing from kissu and related sites.

      I tried a brainstorming thread once, but it never really took off. It has to be organic and stuff and it just never materialized. We agreed on basic traits like nekomimi and a belly and uhh... was that it? It wasn't enough to enough to build a "kissu-tan" on. We kind of lack artists also, so meh. If it happens, it happens, but it probably won't.

    101. Post 134719
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      >>134715
      Creating good mascots has the steep requirement of knowing how to draw and there aren't a whole lot of artists on imageboards apart from on drawfag threads on cutiechan.

    102. Post 134720
      Anonymous
      No.134720

      >>134719
      Funny, back when all these old ibs were relevant many people had ridiculous media editing skills but nobody could code for shit.

      Meanwhile I'd bet hard cash to half this board having senior positions in tech.

      You could always have an oekaki board

    103. Post 134722
      Anonymous
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      >>134720
      Surprise box!

    104. Post 134724
      Anonymous
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      >>134720
      >oekaki board
      we have tegaki already, i don't think such an addition would change things

    105. Post 134727
      Anonymous
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      >>134720
      We've had a few artists show up a few times over the years, but they tend to evaporate in spectacular fashion. Think of those Japanese artists that stub their toe so they decide to wipe out their 15 year old accounts across various sites. People do suffer for their art...

    106. Post 134729
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      Mark my words, as soon as I've gotten good at Japanese and have more free time I'm picking up drawfagging as my next co-existing hobby so I can be a certified shitcode nihongo drawfag otaku. A jack of all otaku trades, master of none.

      I'm only gonna practice drawing lolis though.

    107. Post 134731
      Anonymous
      No.134731

      >>134729
      and dark balding fatsos!

    108. Post 134733
      Anonymous
      No.134733

      >>134724
      I'd argue but the tool doesn't encourage the same sense of community as a dedicated space.

    109. Post 134735
      Anonymous
      No.134735

      fuck you if you make them dark

    110. Post 134737
      Anonymous
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      >>134735
      >fuck♂you if you make them dark

    111. Post 134738
      Anonymous
      No.134738

      Don't worry, the only dark I'll be drawing is kuro sticking her tongue down miyu's mouth.

    112. Post 134739
      Anonymous
      No.134739

      Fun fact:
      I still miss Aniki...

    113. Post 134741
      Anonymous
      No.134741

      kuro sticking her tongue up miyu's butt

    114. Post 135029
      Anonymous
      No.135029

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Speech

      >The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they produce the sounds of language, and it is a type of phonetic notation.

    115. Post 135177
      Anonymous
      No.135177

      >Her students enjoyed it, and she persuaded Noah McVicker (who also sold the putty) and Joe McVicker to manufacture it as a child’s toy.[5] Zufall and her husband came up with the name Play-Doh; Joe McVicker and his uncle Noah had wanted to call it "Rainbow Modeling Compound".[5]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh

    116. Post 135184
      Anonymous
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      >>135177
      heheh

    117. Post 135852
      Anonyaanamous
      No.135852

      Provolone makes up 2.5% of the cheese produced in the United States with 370 million pounds of provolone made in 2023.

    118. Post 135858
      Anonyaanamous
      No.135858

      >>74491(OP)
      Flesh flies, despite the name, does NOT mean they eat flesh! It just means they have live birth, so, they give birth to maggots without the egg part.

    119. Post 136761
      Anonymous
      No.136761

      Acchi Muite Hoi! (あっち向いてホイ) is a popular game in Japan; usually played just after a round of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The winner of the Rock-Paper-Scissors' round points in one direction (up, down, left, right) and the loser has to look in a different direction than the one point at.

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      1 g of TNT, when detonated, releases the same amount of energy required to heat 1 kg of water by 1°C.

      Next time you're boiling a pot of water, consider how much TNT you would need to bring it to a boil !

    121. Post 137193
      Anonymous
      No.137193

      >>137192
      1 kg of water is one liter.
      That wasn't fun, but now you know.
      Where do I score TNT though

    122. Post 137195
      Anonymous
      No.137195

      Imagine basing your entire measurement system around how to cook dinner in the dumbest way possible. Why did anyone ever listen to the French?

    123. Post 137197
      Anonymous
      No.137197

      >>137195
      it's based on working in a lab but it's retarded when you're actually in the field because there is no way you're going to measure to the centimeter

    124. Post 137198
      Anonymous
      No.137198

      >>137197
      For the average person who will never see a lab, the Metric system makes more intuitive sense than the Imperial "system"(?) ever will.
      You know what water is.
      You know what ice is.
      You know what steam is.
      One liter of water is one kg.
      The point where water turns to ice -1 C.
      The point where ice turns to water is 0 C.
      The point where water turns to steam is 100 C.
      Don't want to think about orders of magnitude? Just move the decimal point. No calculation necessary.
      Same principle holds for all other base units. Imagine hating elegance.

    125. Post 137199
      Anonymous
      No.137199

      worst part of farenheight is that it's not even a linear conversion to celcius

    126. Post 137200
      Anonymous
      No.137200

      >>137198
      1. most people don't give a shit what water or steam is
      2. every time someone uses a measuring tape its to cut some wood which they won't even do correctly or measure their dick
      3. nobody does calculations because that shit is for nerds

    127. Post 137201
      Anonymous
      No.137201

      >>137200
      Caveman problems

    128. Post 137203
      Anonymous
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      Grog build house using dik

    129. Post 137204
      Anonymous
      No.137204

      >>137198
      I have a foot.
      I have a yard.
      I have never even SEEN the meter.

      And any system that requires you to use decimals for day-to-day usage is a bad system. Fuck off, use real numbers.

    130. Post 137205
      Anonymous
      No.137205

      >>137204
      from on we will round down the numbers on your pay check

    131. Post 137206
      Anonymous
      No.137206

      >>137204
      >I have a foot.
      L-Lewd!
      >I have a yard.
      Pics or it didn't happen.

    132. Post 137207
      Anonymous
      No.137207

      Most people mainly use measurement to measure food so a better system would be to use foods like sugar cubes or american cheese squares as the basis for a new, better imperial measurement system. Temperature should be based on how hot meat needs to cook to kill the germs and parasites in it.

    133. Post 137208
      Anonymous
      No.137208

      >>137207
      But the parasites add flavor...

    134. Post 137601
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      Fun fact: Nanako is not cute

    135. Post 137626
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      The artist that drew >>126355(Cross) is the same guy who made the classic pic of the giant skeleton spectre, Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
      Dude made a lot of stuff, a pamphlet I picked up even calls him the final boss of Edo art. (「江戸っ子アートのラスボス!」)

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      Anonymous
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      Fun fact:Ran has fluff

    137. Post 137694
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      A sloth's paw hand/claw/whatever muscles work in reverse to most animals, meaning that its neutral position is a "tightened" grip. Instead a sloth must consciously spread it fingers open the way we need to consciously close ours.

    138. Post 137695
      Anonymous
      No.137695

      >>137694
      reminds me of fine motor skills in humans, which i believe comparably consists of a basic signal to the whole hand for example and then another on top selectively canceling it [citation absent]
      funnily enough it also looks like sloths are an ecosystem unto themselves
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropods_associated_with_sloths

    139. Post 137703
      Anonymous
      No.137703

      >>137694
      can't have them falling from the trees while napping can we?

    140. Post 137712
      Anonymous
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      You can have government grade, radar, spy satellites tasked on targets of interest for as low as $675 a shot.
      https://help.umbra.space/product-guide/umbra-pricing

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      >>137712
      I'd imagine people could try and dox people with this, but they'd need to get the time right or else they've just pissed away 700$

    142. Post 137720
      Anonymous
      No.137720

      >>137716
      >>137712
      this is for people who make maps in arcGIS like for surveying

    143. Post 137725
      Anonymous
      No.137725

      >>137720
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar#Objects_in_motion
      Detecting objects in motion seems like more than just making maps for surveying. Unless you are wanting to survey a target's house for when there is moving objects so you can make a map of their activity over time.
      With enough money you can gangstalk vicitms from the comfort of your chair.

    144. Post 137727
      Anonymous
      No.137727

      >>137725
      the objects in motion thing is to make digital elevation maps. i did a project in college like this it's like using drones and targets on the ground and then rasterizing an area. this is for making maps

    145. Post 138658
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      Donkey Kong 64 is, to my knowledge, the only N64 game to use delta time. Speedrunners of the game take advantage of it by deliberately creating slowdown, allowing them to clip through geometry easier.

    146. Post 154506
      Anonymous
      No.154506

      Eating an artichoke can make subsequent foods taste sweeter due to the presence of cynarin, a chemical compound that interacts with sweet taste receptors on the tongue.

    147. Post 154514
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      >>74491(OP)
      The US has over 1,5 billion pounds of cheese in caves across the states.
      Aubrey de Grey, the biologist and transhumanist that believes people from today will be able to live forever is also a genius that solved a 150 years old math problem for fun, he isn't even a mathematician, just an amateur and he solved a century old problem.
      Sheeps have gigantic balls.
      Pic related game is actually really fucking good, I have the platinum trophy for it.

    148. Post 154772
      Anonymous
      No.154772

      there are 5 egg laying mammals
      the platypus
      the western long beaked echidna
      the eastern long beaked echidna
      the short beaked echidna
      the sir david's echidna

    149. Post 154774
      Anonymous
      No.154774

      >>154506
      This is great news, but I hate peeling artichokes.
      Does it still work if the artichoke is on a pizza ordered from a cheap local joint?

    150. Post 154775
      Anonymous
      No.154775

      >>154772
      You forgot the Easter bunny

    151. Post 154791
      Anonymous
      No.154791

      >>137192
      you know, if SI is ultimately all based on TNT maybe i misjudged it, that is a good and practical measure

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