I’m in one of those states of my life again where I’m learning new info, so I decided to make a chat where we can share and discuss research and facts (any sort of stuff basically) that we’ve done on different topics. You can have a short sentence to an essay if you really want. Just try to share some weird, interesting, fun, scary, facts/research here!
They can even be about yourself.
(Def following)
Krakatoa was a volcano that erupted in 1883. It created one of the loudest sounds in history, and ruptured eardrums within 40 miles of the eruption. Imagine being 1 mile away..
On the VEI scale, it was about a 6. Yellowstone, a supervolcano in North America is around 8 on that scale.
The explosion was so strong that it collapsed several of the surrounding islands.
The explosion was heard 3000 something miles away, the equivalent of hearing noise from Ireland in Boston, and created a shockwave that traveled around the planet 4 times. People didn’t feel it 4 times, but it did happen to travel around the planet that much.
The year of eruption was called the Year Without a Summer.
Today, Anak Krakatau exists, ‘Son of Krakatoa.’ It is very active, growing 22 feet per year. Before December 2018 it was 400 metres tall, or around that height. Last December it erupted and went down to 110 metres, but today it remains to erupt and rebuild.
It is still a popular tourist attraction.
The more research I do, the more confusing the idea of spontaneous human combustion becomes. Sites discredit each other back and forth and give conflicting information. The only thing I can find that's common in all of them is: The wicking effect is when your fat turns to liquid and fuels the fire. Also, some people, don't remember who, have done tests with this with pig meat (pigs are commonly used when it comes to researching stuff about the human body without actually using humans. Like, after they're dead. As far as I know, no one tortures pigs. Not scientists anyway). The most common thing it said was that it supported the wicking effect/theory, but there was one site that said the exact opposite of everything I'd found.
Cat's noses are all different. Similar to the human finger print- not one cat has the same nose.
I have more cat facts, want them?
XD Here we go
A domestic cat's purr has the frequency between 25-150 hertz. This happens to be the frequency at which muscles and bones best grow and repair themselves.
Cats sweat through their paws.
Cats are usually lefties.
House cats share 95.6% of their genetic makeup with tigers.
A group of cat is called a clowder.
Cats are lactose intolerant.
Cats meows are an attempt to talk to humans, not other cats.
A cat with more then 10 toes is called a polydactyl.
A cat has tge ability to rotate it's ears 180 degrees with the help of 32 muscles that it uses to control them.
Platypi are venomous. All platypi have a sharp venomous barb near their back ankles.
(I actually knew that! XD Thank you Phinease and Ferb lol)
As it turns out, the Krakatoa eruption and the resulting Year without a Summer meant that is was pretty cold. That meant more people decided to stay inside and find other intellectually-stimulating activities to do, including Mary Shelley, who, on a dare, invented Science Fiction. That led to a renaissance in the 20th century, giving us classics like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Dune, to name a few.
Thanks, Krakatoa!
Oh! Another Phineas and Ferb fact:
The small plastic tips of shoelaces are called aglets.
AYYYE! ^
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As it turns out, the Krakatoa eruption and the resulting Year without a Summer meant that is was pretty cold. That meant more people decided to stay inside and find other intellectually-stimulating activities to do, including Mary Shelley, who, on a dare, invented Science Fiction. That led to a renaissance in the 20th century, giving us classics like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Dune, to name a few.
Thanks, Krakatoa!
Huh, I never thought I'd be thankful to an eruption but here we are.
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Fun fact! Love's Labour's Lost may or may not have had a sequel that is now lost to time.
At one point Lichtenstein had an army of 80, which they sent out in 1866. The army engaged in no fighting and returned to Lichtenstein..with 81 men, since they’d befriended an Austrian soldier along the way who came with them.
Lichtenstein was accidentally invaded by Switzerland at one point. Switzerland apologized, of course.
As it turns out, "riding shotgun" came from the late 1800s when the Wells Fargo wagons would have an armed guard with a break-action shotgun because the carts were easy pickings for highwaymen and the shotgun allowed them to shoot without having to worry about accuracy over rough terrain.
The end of the body-snatching era came about when this Scottish anatomist (e.g. Guy Who Was Definitely Not Illegally Dissecting People For Science) named Robert Knox accepted a body from these two guys named Burke and Hare, who just showed up at his door out of nowhere with a fresh corpse like "hey give us some money and you can have this body for your work" and he was like "yes this seems reasonable and not at all suspicious." So Knox took the body. And then the same thing happened again. And again. And again. Because what had actually happened is that Hare was running kind of a hotel and a guy had died there and was thus unable to pay for his stay, so him and Burke decided to repay his debt by giving his corpse to science for money. And it was a considerable amount of money. And they were poor. And that's right, you guessed it, they started straight-up murdering people to sell their bodies to Knox, who never showed any amount of suspicion and didn't ask questions except for asking them to bring more. And it happened. Fifteen. Times.
Knox and Hare got off scot-free (get it, they're Scottish, ha ha), but Burke was hanged in front of 25,000 people, his name became a synonym for smothering, and get this… his body was, you guessed it, donated to science and dissected just like the people he helped murder, his skeleton is still at a medical college in Scotland to this day, and some guy made multiple brown leather wallets out of his skin. Charming.
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In the early 20th century, parachute silk was hard to come by in the Soviet Union, so they tested dropping soldiers into deep snow (which I imagine would have a low success rate..)
In 1930, they also tested airdropping busses with troops; G-45 onto land, and the hydro bus into water. The hydro bus disintegrated upon landing, so the Chief Designer and his assistant were strapped into the G-45 for a drop on land. They survived, however. The project itself was cancelled.
Many countries experimented with winged tanks, but I’m mostly talking Soviet Union still here.
One test flight was semi-successful, but they lacked the needed aircraft to travel 160 km/h, so the project was also cancelled.
Ice can sing. https://youtu.be/Q3QWZQCMAW4
Need I say more?
