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I heard this recently on a podcast and thought it was pretty cool:
[Mildly disturbing, kinda gloomy]
As some may know, back in the Victorian era, they had various post-mortem practices, including the well-known photographic sort (taking photos with the deceased body as a momento). One other practice was having an "open house" of sorts where friends and family could come see the displayed and adorned deceased before the funeral. This would generally take place in the foyer. Because of this, the foyer came to be known colloquially as the "death room".
Over time, houses began being built without a distinct foyer, and instead had just a general bigger open room at the entrance. It was also around this time that the above-mentioned post-mortem practices stopped, and real estate offices decided it'd probably be best to get rid of the "death room" stigma. So, this new larger foyer-esque "death room" came to be known as... the living room.
*gasps*
[Mildly disturbing, kinda gloomy]
As some may know, back in the Victorian era, they had various post-mortem practices, including the well-known photographic sort (taking photos with the deceased body as a momento). One other practice was having an "open house" of sorts where friends and family could come see the displayed and adorned deceased before the funeral. This would generally take place in the foyer. Because of this, the foyer came to be known colloquially as the "death room".
Over time, houses began being built without a distinct foyer, and instead had just a general bigger open room at the entrance. It was also around this time that the above-mentioned post-mortem practices stopped, and real estate offices decided it'd probably be best to get rid of the "death room" stigma. So, this new larger foyer-esque "death room" came to be known as... the living room.
*gasps*
If ants ever gain sentience we're all going to die in many horrible ways....by ants.
In other news meal worms (those super disgusting brownish yellow worm things from your nightmares) have been discovered to be able to eat and break down styrofoam to the point where the excrement is actually biodegradable. Scientists are still researching this but so far no side effects have been reported in the worms. And this is all possible due to enzymes in the worm's stomach that allow it to apparantly break down plasticish stuff, somehow, yay!
Where should I start?
Argintine ants have developed a "Global Super Colony" which is a term used by scientists (look it up to prove me wrong) which is a fancy and scientific way of saying WE'RE ALL GOING TO FREAKING DIE! In other words the Argintine ant has created massive amounts of colonies that have expanded all over the world via hiding on human ships and creating colonies on every continent that's not called antartica (which may not be safe as that's probably where the massive ant overlord sleeps, hence the word "ant" in its name), but while you're thinking "oh so what they're different colonies they'll attack eachother, right?" NO THEY WILL NOT! Basically they just say to eachother "look we're the same specieies let's be friends and have our swarms become one super swarm." To which the only reply according to observed behavior is "ok, but this time WE SWARM THE ZERG!".
Because of these massive colonies the Argintine ant has taken over parts of Australia where it has killed out species of ants that are 3-5 X their physical size on a scale of 1 Argintine ant vs 1 ant from freaking Australia. (Look it up it will horrify you) Oh and did I mention that they're killing species of lizards in California? You see they do this by killing more species of bigger ants (I wonder if there's a pattern here?) the native lizards can't eat as much food via ants....thus wiping out half of said lizard population. It's basically like having 2 pieces of toast replace every loaf of bread you'll ever have the chance of eating, aka you're going to freaking starve. And because of this everything that eats lizards is also dying out in one giant ball of ants are going to take over the world.
Next up we have proof that ants are trying to kill modern human technology, YAYYY! You see ants are attracted to electricity and/or electromagnetic fields and apparantly cause billions of dollars in damage to Britain's power grid each year. Because they apparantly see electricity as some sort of threat (threat to taking over the world) and thus they attack outside power stations etc no matter how many bodies get fried endlessly with electricity until they power station stops producing electric etc. and no I'm not saying they form a mega zord made with ants (that would be showing off too much), what they do do however is just go in an endless line of kamikazis that attack electricity. (Seriously look up "ants causing damage to britain's power grid")
Now for the last horrifying fact about Argintine ants, poison is like playing romantic music to them. You see, when sprayed with a stream of bug killer that's not infront of a lighter Argintine ants start reproducing even quicker and take the scent of attempted and failed killing them home and then start laying eggs and hatching etc quicker.
Next up we have more horrifying stuff.
Let's see, we've covered them attacking electricity, establishing super villain sized bases, eleminating other species, and how Argintine ants breed more when exposed to poison, what else is there? Oh yes, the fact that if they wanted to they could form mega zords the size of humanity and then kill us all in one giant wave of pants needing to be changed terror, because get this, pound for pound ants have equal or greater biomass than humans. Imagine yourself standing up, then imagine a super horrifying version of yourself opposite you, made out of a swarm of ants like a horror movie, then imagine this FOR EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET. That's just how big the ant biomass density is on Earth, so please tell me again why you think I'm crazy for planning to go into a bunker with a bug a salt and 50 tons of salt, water and explosives for the ant apocalypse that is bound to happen?
There is hope however in the form of something called beneficial Nematodes. There are two kinds of Nematodes, the kind that kills your plants and good insects in your garden, and the kind that goes all super nasty horror movie on ants and grubs etc. WARNING THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE SOMEHOW SCARIER THAN THE PART ABOUT A CLONE OF EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH MADE OUT OF ANTS.
You see nematodes are the definition of scary horror movie parasite, but for insects, they basically enter something, say an ant through any opening it can get into ie the crevice of an ant's exosceleton and then once there they start to feed on the inside of said ant and lay eggs while the ant body swells up and starts doing things more slowly etc, then one day pop goes the nasty HOLY ARCEUS MY EYES! and the ant body that just exploded with nematodes goes and lays more eggs to feed on the remaining ant body while the rest search out new hosts to infest etc even via entering food that the ant is eating. FUN!
Argintine ants have developed a "Global Super Colony" which is a term used by scientists (look it up to prove me wrong) which is a fancy and scientific way of saying WE'RE ALL GOING TO FREAKING DIE! In other words the Argintine ant has created massive amounts of colonies that have expanded all over the world via hiding on human ships and creating colonies on every continent that's not called antartica (which may not be safe as that's probably where the massive ant overlord sleeps, hence the word "ant" in its name), but while you're thinking "oh so what they're different colonies they'll attack eachother, right?" NO THEY WILL NOT! Basically they just say to eachother "look we're the same specieies let's be friends and have our swarms become one super swarm." To which the only reply according to observed behavior is "ok, but this time WE SWARM THE ZERG!".
Because of these massive colonies the Argintine ant has taken over parts of Australia where it has killed out species of ants that are 3-5 X their physical size on a scale of 1 Argintine ant vs 1 ant from freaking Australia. (Look it up it will horrify you) Oh and did I mention that they're killing species of lizards in California? You see they do this by killing more species of bigger ants (I wonder if there's a pattern here?) the native lizards can't eat as much food via ants....thus wiping out half of said lizard population. It's basically like having 2 pieces of toast replace every loaf of bread you'll ever have the chance of eating, aka you're going to freaking starve. And because of this everything that eats lizards is also dying out in one giant ball of ants are going to take over the world.
Next up we have proof that ants are trying to kill modern human technology, YAYYY! You see ants are attracted to electricity and/or electromagnetic fields and apparantly cause billions of dollars in damage to Britain's power grid each year. Because they apparantly see electricity as some sort of threat (threat to taking over the world) and thus they attack outside power stations etc no matter how many bodies get fried endlessly with electricity until they power station stops producing electric etc. and no I'm not saying they form a mega zord made with ants (that would be showing off too much), what they do do however is just go in an endless line of kamikazis that attack electricity. (Seriously look up "ants causing damage to britain's power grid")
Now for the last horrifying fact about Argintine ants, poison is like playing romantic music to them. You see, when sprayed with a stream of bug killer that's not infront of a lighter Argintine ants start reproducing even quicker and take the scent of attempted and failed killing them home and then start laying eggs and hatching etc quicker.
Next up we have more horrifying stuff.
Let's see, we've covered them attacking electricity, establishing super villain sized bases, eleminating other species, and how Argintine ants breed more when exposed to poison, what else is there? Oh yes, the fact that if they wanted to they could form mega zords the size of humanity and then kill us all in one giant wave of pants needing to be changed terror, because get this, pound for pound ants have equal or greater biomass than humans. Imagine yourself standing up, then imagine a super horrifying version of yourself opposite you, made out of a swarm of ants like a horror movie, then imagine this FOR EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET. That's just how big the ant biomass density is on Earth, so please tell me again why you think I'm crazy for planning to go into a bunker with a bug a salt and 50 tons of salt, water and explosives for the ant apocalypse that is bound to happen?
There is hope however in the form of something called beneficial Nematodes. There are two kinds of Nematodes, the kind that kills your plants and good insects in your garden, and the kind that goes all super nasty horror movie on ants and grubs etc. WARNING THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE SOMEHOW SCARIER THAN THE PART ABOUT A CLONE OF EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH MADE OUT OF ANTS.
You see nematodes are the definition of scary horror movie parasite, but for insects, they basically enter something, say an ant through any opening it can get into ie the crevice of an ant's exosceleton and then once there they start to feed on the inside of said ant and lay eggs while the ant body swells up and starts doing things more slowly etc, then one day pop goes the nasty HOLY ARCEUS MY EYES! and the ant body that just exploded with nematodes goes and lays more eggs to feed on the remaining ant body while the rest search out new hosts to infest etc even via entering food that the ant is eating. FUN!
In other news meal worms (those super disgusting brownish yellow worm things from your nightmares) have been discovered to be able to eat and break down styrofoam to the point where the excrement is actually biodegradable. Scientists are still researching this but so far no side effects have been reported in the worms. And this is all possible due to enzymes in the worm's stomach that allow it to apparantly break down plasticish stuff, somehow, yay!
I had no idea until this past summer that ants tasted like lemons. Apparently the red ones taste better too because they get fired up.
A stopped analog clock is correct twice a day, whereas a stopped digital clock is not.
Ancient Romans created toothpaste from urine.
The European Magpie is the only known non-mammal (it's a bird) that has been confirmed to display self awareness. That is, it can recognize its reflection in a mirror as itself and not another animal.
A newborn platypus is called a puggle.
The Space Sphere will never go to space. You will never go to space. Space does not exist.
Ancient Romans created toothpaste from urine.
The European Magpie is the only known non-mammal (it's a bird) that has been confirmed to display self awareness. That is, it can recognize its reflection in a mirror as itself and not another animal.
A newborn platypus is called a puggle.
The Space Sphere will never go to space. You will never go to space. Space does not exist.
Fact there is an official presidential candidate with that name the official paper work has been signed etc, and it's not going anywhere, but it's on some federal list or something.
Pokémon Red and Blue are the second-best selling games on the Gameboy, falling only behind Tetris.
Nooooot quite. The guys doing the polls decided to create a joke candidate to try and make politics "lighter", which is a really dumb idea but I digress. Deez Nuts isn't a real person, they're just an option on surveys.
The billionth digit of pi is 9,
Chimpanzees share about 99% of ther DNA with humans.
The most common bird in the world is the domestic chicken.
Rats cannot throw up.
Tomatoes were once thought to be toxic.
At some point in their lives, one in six children will be abdicated by the Dutch. (Yes I am quoting Portal 2's Fact Sphere)
Chimpanzees share about 99% of ther DNA with humans.
The most common bird in the world is the domestic chicken.
Rats cannot throw up.
Tomatoes were once thought to be toxic.
At some point in their lives, one in six children will be abdicated by the Dutch. (Yes I am quoting Portal 2's Fact Sphere)
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Ness is the only playable character in the entire Smash series whos name starts with the letter N.
Olimar is the only playable character in the entire Smash series who's name starts with the letter O.
Olimar also has the most default special moves that deal no damage in smash 4, with 3 out of his 4 default special moves dealing no damage.
Olimar is the only playable character in the entire Smash series who's name starts with the letter O.
Olimar also has the most default special moves that deal no damage in smash 4, with 3 out of his 4 default special moves dealing no damage.
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Pokemon X and Y came out worldwide 2 years ago today. Time flies.
The song Closing Time by Semisonic is not about a bartender kicking out patrons. It's actually about the birth of the lead singer's daughter.
Halloween is more Irish than St. Patrick's Day.
Speaking of Halloween, the fear of Halloween is called Samhainophobia.
South Dakota celebrates Native American Day instead of Columbus Day. Fitting fact for today, eh?
We want to squeeze cute things because cuteness activates aggressive responses in our brains.
On September 9, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 year, 7 month and 2 day reign.
The song Closing Time by Semisonic is not about a bartender kicking out patrons. It's actually about the birth of the lead singer's daughter.
Halloween is more Irish than St. Patrick's Day.
Speaking of Halloween, the fear of Halloween is called Samhainophobia.
South Dakota celebrates Native American Day instead of Columbus Day. Fitting fact for today, eh?
We want to squeeze cute things because cuteness activates aggressive responses in our brains.
On September 9, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 year, 7 month and 2 day reign.
The roster for Super Smash Bros Brawl was locked in on july 5th, 2005. Ten years ago. where did all the time go?
'Aerial Ace' is notably learned by not only birdlike Pokémon, but also those with connections to blades, swords, or just sharp objects in general. This is because the Japanese name, 'Swallow Return', refers to a technique used by the feudal Japanese swordsman Sasaki Kojiro, best known for dueling Miyamoto Musashi, who is commonly regarded as one of the greatest swordsmen of all time. Kojiro would cut down swallows on the wing with a very fast and precise stroke that came to be known as the 'Turning Swallow Cut'.
The maximum amount of Pokemon you can catch in Pokemon Red or Blue without trading is 124.
Japan’s low birth rates have caused about 5,800 public schools to close between 2002 and 2013, since there are not enough kids to fill them.
In the original Italian version of Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother was a cat.
The only place in the world that was unaffected by the 1918 influenza pandemic was Marajo Island in Brazil.
Japan’s low birth rates have caused about 5,800 public schools to close between 2002 and 2013, since there are not enough kids to fill them.
In the original Italian version of Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother was a cat.
The only place in the world that was unaffected by the 1918 influenza pandemic was Marajo Island in Brazil.
Wombats produce cube shaped poop. It's weird as all get out, but it's one of my favourite trivia items.
Who would like to read some facts?
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
The more you know.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
The more you know.
- US eggs are illegal in the UK and UK eggs are illegal in the US. This is because the US requires eggs to be washed for sanitation reasons and the UK requires eggs to be unwashed for sanitation reasons.
- Typing "Do a Barrel Roll" into Google makes the results do a Barrel Roll. This is most likely a reference to Star Fox.
- Justin Bieber beat Shaq at Basketball. This probably says more about Shaq's friendship with Bieber than Beiber's Basketball skills.
- Typing "Do a Barrel Roll" into Google makes the results do a Barrel Roll. This is most likely a reference to Star Fox.
- Justin Bieber beat Shaq at Basketball. This probably says more about Shaq's friendship with Bieber than Beiber's Basketball skills.