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Does /qa/ know any fun facts?
One I just learned is that copper is actually more dense than iron.
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.
Bottom line Tap water is as good as sterile saline solution to irrigate simple lacerations before repair.
Was looking around at human eye stuff and apparently human eye color differences are from this and not pigment differences: https://en.wikipedia.o
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.
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.
https://www.brickbending
very discouraging website
apparently falcons are much genetically closer to things like cockatoos and parakeets than they are eagles.
This button that appears in some UI stuff is called the hamburger menu
You are alive for a few seconds after your head gets decapitated, until oxygen stops going to your brain.
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!
>>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.
>>93622
Right, I meant the number of particles.
>>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.
The first animated feature film and the first animated film with sound were both made in Argentina.
https://www.damninterestin
The first message sent on the internet was "lo". It was meant to be "login" but it crashed after the first two letters.
The process of making the fanciest wines in the world is befittingly as intensive and precise as one would expect:
https://en.wikipedia.o
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.
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
>>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
>>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
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.o
>>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."
>>104293
It's not exclusive to Catholics.
https://en.wikipedia.o
I learned that a game mechanic has a name: the Ubisoft Tower:
https://www.videogamer
https://www.vg247.com/exploring-and-uncoveri
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
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
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.
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
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.
>>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.
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.
>>111919
Is that really a fun fact?
Ivory soap balloons when you microwave it because it's so airy.
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.
>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.
>>76956
Ooo, there's a video of it on youtube too: https://www.youtube.co
>>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.
>>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.
>>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
>>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...
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.
>>134735
>fuck♂you if you make them dark
https://en.wikipedia.o
>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.
>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.o
>>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.
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.
>>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.
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.
The artist that drew >>126355(Cross) is the same guy who made the classic pic of the
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!」)
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.
>>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.o
You can have government grade, radar, spy satellites tasked on targets of interest for as low as $675 a shot.
https://help.umbra.spa
>>137720
https://en.wikipedia.o
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.
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.
>>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.