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Learn some potentially fun new facts while you’re taking a break from bs.
https://wtffunfact.com
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CassandraCat
#4 that's not a very fun fact
ThisIsYourLifeNow
#7 is genius. If you pay taxes already at that age, you should have a right to vote how your taxes are used
GenMerch
The Nixon/Satchmo story is a great one, but totally false; fails fact checks.
Eiladar
These things are always suspect, but I do know that the USDA has a min. level for things like insect parts and fecal matter (IE, it's not 0)
SirDistic
It's physically impossible to keep insect parts out of food completely.
llamamushroom
True, but those insect parts are in everything, not just chocolate... So if you're allergic to all processed foods then sure, that's it
3Davideo
Surely it's a max level, not a min level?
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
Now, the government feeds us a minimum amount of shit every day
taurondir
"... chocolate can legally contain up to 60 insect fragments per 100 grams."
hankovich
Here's 2000 lbs of wheat/coffee beans/peanuts/whatever. Your job is to make sure there are no ants in it. Good luck.
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
This kind of FDA legislation applies to dozens, if not hundreds of foods. Peanut butter was the first litigated.
DanteHicks79
Same with rice. There are lots of shocking tolerances.
taurondir
I individually wash my grains of rice with a rice grain washer.
artemiss123
#17 both are even numbers
borkjorst
It is supposed to be even and odd thousands; so 34 and 35 respectively. Not sure if applicable in commercial flight (FAR/AIM 91.159)
Tubularballs
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
KarrotSeal
The actual rule is to refer the flight level (35000 ft is FL 350) divided by 10, so 35, which is odd, or 34 which is even
PlatinumMaximum
And wasn’t it the same rule for north/south but on the 500’s?
KarrotSeal
If I remember correctly... source: I used to be a flight instructor but holy shit I forget the boring stuff quickly
ClickBabeMagnet
I get what the fact is stating about airplanes. But 34K and 35K are both even numbers...
Hanska01
I believe they mean 34 (thousand) vs. 35 (thousand), could be wrong.
getmesomepizza1
I heard Prince also had full movies he'd filmed along with the music recordings
NapoleonDynOmite
Red rain, blue rain, green rain, yellow rain...
ImgurCouncilOfLlamas
chocolate rain?
daementia
One rain, two rain, purple rain, endless pain.
yifin
Kevin Smith has a great bit about this in one of his college tour videos.
DarshDarker
I loved his Prince story from An Evening with Kevin Smith. Just saw Jimmy Fallon tell a Prince Ping Pong story. Common threads, I thought.
DarshDarker
https://youtu.be/vokk3A1nXNI
getmesomepizza1
Indeed, that's where I heard it! Really made Prince look bad. "If the bra fits" ...
ace5762
"Wolverines, which are much easier to train than dogs"? I'm gonna require citation on that one. Wolverines are vicious lil fuckers.
davdeMoonQueen
Hope they untrain the eating part ...
ace5762
It's apparently real, feck me: https://www.outsideonline.com/2067281/wolverines-future-search-and-rescue
hankovich
"Alaska man who owns two wolverines proposes training them for search and rescue" is a more accurate summary.
allenvasher3000
I've seen the training, it is really cool, but if a wolverine tries to dig me out of an avalanche I'm going to start digging deeper. 1/2
allenvasher3000
2/2 it was amazing to see a 37lbs wolverine pull a almost 200lbs man out of a snow bank by his glove
Jennar8OR
Vicious, but will sit when asked;)
llamamushroom
Maybe specifically easier to train for avalanche rescue? But yeah, citation fucking needed
jrogon5
Enjoyable way to pass the time.
turkishbutnotnationalist
#19 so what happened to my body my choice
ArtsyChelsea
Wait... I want that Prince thing to happen!
ShireOfFrodo
#19 Please tell me that this was a sarcastic bill designed to expose the stupidity of bans on women's reproductive freedoms. Otherwise, it's
ShireOfFrodo
just the new eugenics, & I hate it.
taurondir
11578: OH NOES YOU MADE THE FOXES AUTHIS... autoist .... authori.... STUPID
DustinJL
#12 Must be why rinsing my face with water wakes me up; gives my brain a shot of oxygen!
SirDistic
My cocaine. Also it's "Crab Bucket Mentality"
WeeemRCB
These QEII cows thinking like their shit don't stink... When I drive past, it smells like every other farm, only with posh neighbours
mawleydogs
Only if they’re spreading though. Don’t really smell anything any other time.
OnlyCrabs
#11
JohnOe
Im having a hard time believing any one of these
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
#16 tomacco
iBlameKevin
#17 Those are technically both even numbers.
Afewflowers
#20 AKA just in case you hadn't caught on yet, we're making this shit up.
alisa2089
#6 I’m allergic to the caffeine in chocolate. It’s the first caffeine kids are usually given, so it’s what first triggered an attack.
aweebitbmpy
But how do you stop the Wolverines from eating the survivors once they’ve found them?
DanteHicks79
Who says you stop them?
Hanska01
Training.
FunEndsHere
Ah yes, the Instagram "fact" site that posts largely made-up or misleading facts
BeatMasterG
Erm... You mean, this _isn't_ satirical comedy?
Ninjainslippers
The corn oxygen one is insanely misleading. Natural rainforest vs. monoculture that requires millions of tons of fertilizer and herbicide.
onlysingalone
No, no. according to the comments these are all true and fascinating
MulattoGelato
Most of these I'll insta-forget... But I'm a londoner, every weekend, "Oi fellas let's have a naughty Stand Bitch"-"You bitching the pot?"
MulattoGelato
"Yes, I'm bitching the pot, you bringing ya missus?" -"Course mate, cheers". IM BRING IT IT BACK!
DanteHicks79
The Lightoller one is true
nothingtodoandalldaytodoit
Like to think the Louis Armstrong one is true. He's like fuck it.. I'm Puttin' All My Eggs in One Basket.
NapoleonDynOmite
At least half are BS
TheStonewall
Hanska01
It’s under the very first photo, and also at the end of the post.
GoldenBandit
You know, I have seen wtf fun facts before but never visited the site. All the facts have sources added. Pretty cool.
Hanska01
Indeed they do :)
ThreeLineRifle
guitarfourtysix
Nixon's pot and Cockroach's chocolate check good. That's all the vermin I will research tonight.
Hcrld
I can verify the even/odd altitudes one. In addition IFR traffic flies at exact 1000's while VFR traffic flies at +500 feet. 1/2.
squalenework12
What's IFR and VFR?
Hcrld
This means, for example, that westbound VFR traffic will fly at 4500, 6500, 8500, etc. 2/2
daromander
I just want everyone to know that I researched this myself and that 35,000 ft is in fact an EVEN number
knowallknownothing
Got some citation on that? I’m still not sure. I see two odd numbers, does that make it even and 34,000 odd because the sum is odd?
daromander
/a/0DO0FJx Always good to show your work
FlyByGRider
It ends in a 0 so it's an even number. But just so you know they were talking about the 34 and 35 parts. Not the 0 parts.
knowallknownothing
Wow. Three months later and you couldn’t sense my sarcasm and felt the need to explain even an odd numbers.
FlyByGRider
It seemed like you didn't know how numbers work. I was just trying to help you out ?
knowallknownothing
:Sarcastic care emoji:
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
That camel one... ew....
Knightendae
The things women do not to conceive
benburckhardt
It’s an ancient euphemism
CWrightPills
If you think the camel spit’s gross you’re going to be blown away by the things babies do
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
I've had 2, one of them threw up in my mouth and I think the camel spit is worse.
NapoleonDynOmite
I'm not fucking any woman that drinks camel spit. Pretty sure that would work in modern times
immerman411
Whos gonna go near a woman who drinks camels spittle? Eating turds is probably also an effective contraceptive!
DaisyfromDownunder
That encourages her husband to go fifth base with a camel, thereby achieving birth control.
GimcrackGewgaw
How the heck did they find that out?!
squalenework12
Maybe it's the guy who discovered cow's milk!
imgonnahurtu
A lot would argue it's less gross than the baby. Assuming it works, of course.
robofist194
Better than belladonna in Italy yah?
awardwinningbananaforscale
I guess if you're too nauseous to want to schtup, maybe it works?!
orbitn
I mean, if you knew she was the kind of girl to swill camel foam, what other nastiness might she be up to? Pretty good birth control. Then
orbitn
again i bat for the other team and have no idea what im talking about
Lisossoma
Well in ancient Egypt dried crocodile dung was used as a pessary...ewww
NapoleonDynOmite
Wtf is pessary?
sadagadachess
You just had to fucking ask
NapoleonDynOmite
Well I did. But, how did you get down here?
NapoleonDynOmite
I didn't actually want to know
Lisossoma
a small soluble block that is inserted into the vagina to treat infection or as a contraceptive.
Badger421
I regret knowing this, please erase this knowledge from my mind.
gurksaft
NapoleonDynOmite
I'm almost 50 yo. you learn something new every day
KaraokeLemur
And often without your consent.
Amwee
I had read that on my break I had since forgotten, now it's my lunch and you've reminded me curse you and your unborn children.
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
They're both born already thankfully!
forestfart
Mice were used as pregnancy-test
forestfart
Oh and there was a test for confirming someone was or was not the father, that will make u puke
forestfart
Mixing a little bit poo from the father with milk and give it to the baby. If the baby gets sick, the man was not the father.
forestfart
Please dont try this. That Test does not work and will make the baby sick.
youjackass
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Totsmacgee
I need to know
Hanska01
If it works, it works ?♀️
OriginalPiR8
They didn't say that though.
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
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dbids
Did it tho
ThisMayBeMyLastPost
I guess I would keep my distance from any woman with camel saliva frothing from their mouth.
KillFax
Same. It's the best birth control if no one would even get close to you.
krytenofsmeg
Would you go near someone that you witnessed chowing down on camel slobber?
jeeeps
krytenofsmeg
Sorry, that reaction just made me snort coke. Cola, that is, out my nose.
bigkingdingaling
#3 young, fast growing plants produce way more oxygen than old growth forests. Old forests about break even on oxygen they make vs take in
DEADGH057
also don't forget that the Amazon is also getting cut down en masse so that lowers it even more
patta8388
Difference is, rain forests produce all year long while stuff like corn peaks only for a short span of weeks
horsesareevil
and forests sequester carbon in the soil, whereas conventional corn fields do not, and also release greenhouse gases when tilled
bigkingdingaling
Old forests certainly hold a lot more carbon. I was only talking about the oxygen they produce. Old forests consume about what they produce
Vietnamiks
I can hardly express how unbelievably basic/moronic that statement is. Your comparing a fully functioning ecosystem that has worked for
Vietnamiks
(2) millions of years to a monocrop that needs constant watering, fertilising and is rapidly destroying any sort of functioning soil.
Vietnamiks
(3) no wonder this planet is fucked
bigkingdingaling
I didnt say it was a good thing. I didnt say it was better. I simply stated the fact that young,fast growing species release more oxygen.
Geek13
Also, the corn crop grows for what, 2 months?
bigkingdingaling
Google and seems 120 days on average for new hybrids. We always said it had to be knee high by the 4th of July for a good crop
CaptainThePirate
It’s more that older forests have non floral inhabitants that heavily skew the footprint. ‘Tigers don’t sleep in fields.’ Or something....
bigkingdingaling
Older trees use up about as much as they make. Younger produce more than they use
CaptainThePirate
And here’s a loose sauce: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-08/965676157.Bt.r.html
quzar
Source?
bigkingdingaling
Science.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
Scientists cite their sources.
bigkingdingaling
Google is an amazing tool.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
I bet.
puppiesarepoopers
milked at their own leisure? wtf does that mean?
CitrusSharp
They go when they feel like it rather than when they are sent to be milked and each cow has a tag so the machine knows which cow is there
puppiesarepoopers
so bizarre
CitrusSharp
After they get milked they then can go get a robot massage if you want bizarre
dunlapk33331415
Cows,and most mammals' udders/breasts become very painful unless they are regularly milked once they start to lactate
puppiesarepoopers
oh, i'm aware, i just think the 'at their leisure' part is misleading/a nicety
Muschifurz
If the cows feel like it, they go to the milking station and get automatically milked by a robot.
iwritespankyaliens
And if you’re wondering if they’d want it, yes. Being full of/engorged with milk is uncomfortable so they would go when they felt the need.
russiandollsarejustsofullofthemselves
Also, usually robotic milking machines dispense food, so they learn to go there when they're hungry.
RancidOrange
It slightly more complex than that. The machine knows which cow it’s milking and when it was last milked and how much milk it gave.
RancidOrange
If the cow returns to the machine too soon it’ll get booted out without any food. The amount of food given is carefully controlled
RancidOrange
To supplement the pasture the cows live on. It’s amazing to see these cows and automated milking machines in action.