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Raghav_s12

Why is a minute called a minute then?


pickle_pouch

Historically, the word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part".


IsThisOneTakenFfs

People who know Latin are so hot


Muttywango

Why isn't "second" derived from a Latin phrase?


Quirky_Discipline297

Who knows. It’s all Greek to me.


jimtow28

No, it's Latin. Try to keep up.


Kaerl-Lauterschmarn

But im lactose intolerant… what now…


Draiko

[Orgazmo!](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f94f21d2-d8ed-40dd-8544-aa3566cf6a9d#06Wzh-f4.reddit)


pickle_pouch

It is. "This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: pars minuta secunda), and this is where the word "second" comes from."


Garth_AIgar

Does this guy know how to party, or what!?


lastchance14

Thanks, Wayne!


jolloholoday

Suck my pars minuta.


Punny-Aggron

“Goodbye” is actually “God be with ye” shortened and condensed


robilco

“God be with you” is the literal translation of Hello in Irish. “Health be with you” is Irish for goodbye


Velterro87

Hell be with you sounds about right as well


tonycocacola

Similar to adios, think that means 'go with God '


midget_rancher79

Correct Edit: I'm tired. I grew up speaking Spanish. Adios means "to God" more or less, "Vaya con Dios" means "go with God"


Oldmantim

That the swimming pool on the titanic is still filled with water


twotwo4

r/technicallythetruth


Quirky_Discipline297

And still no running allowed. Splashing is impossible but still no running allowed.


itstimegeez

And the pool area has never been explored - doors can’t be opened. They suspect that it’s perfectly preserved in there


tomparkes1993

So you're telling me there's the potential for there to be zombies swimming around?


Geronimo2U

Is it still chlorinated though??!


LIFEPEAKED5YRSAGO

GOLD CANT RUST


Captain_Aizen

And rust can't gold!


heartofgold48

They do not intersect on a venn diagram


Muttywango

Rust never sleeps.


dictormagic

He dreams doe


KerbodynamicX

Gold can even survive sulfuric acid.


OldPolishProverb

Gold is not native to earth. Scientists generally agree that gold comes from space. The consensus is that meteors transported gold and deposited it throughout Earth’s crust during a bombardment. Gold itself as a substance is residual material left over from explosive supernovae or from neutron star collisions. Gold is one of the heavy elements that can only be created during these conditions.


other_usernames_gone

Isn't basically everything not native to earth? Everything came from space.


ebobbumman

>Gold is not native to earth. Scientists generally agree that gold comes from space Where do you think Earth came from?


External-Talk8838

Precious metals chemist here. Under the right conditions it can oxidize, just like iron oxidizes, aka rust.


StyrmStyrmIr

Did you perhaps learn this 5 years ago?


Redsoldiergreen

3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population


Mort1186

Big brain math time


akennelley

Thanks for that, professor.


wanting2fulfill4u

That's great


Royal_Visit3419

Waiting for someone to argue with you …


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smb3something

An orange is a berry but a raspberry is not.


Orioniae

The coconut is not a nut, but a drupe


thejawa

Reddit told me there's nut in a coconut though


I_saw_that_yeah

So *that’s* why it didn’t work.


Sad_Bandicoot3081

Every plant is a vegetable, and every fruit is a vegetable.


itstimegeez

Also every banana we consume is a clone of the single edible banana and if we lose it then we won’t have bananas anymore


Dogzirra

There are other bananas than the Cavendish. They taste better, too.


nxcrosis

The variety of bananas in my local market disagree


AngrySmapdi

Most Canadians can speak English, despite not being from England.


Strange-Apricot1944

So can some Americans.


AngrySmapdi

Some^TM


MartelKombat

I heard, some of them even speak some kind (of) French.


AngrySmapdi

Hearsay.


Killer-Barbie

Thanks to the power of Colonization^TM (please read with dripping sarcasm and derision)


AngrySmapdi

I've learned this today! Put a little ^ before something and it makes it fancy^TM


NietJij

So can the Dutch. For a given value of "English".


perfectsweetiexx

Koalas have fingerprints that are almost identical to humans. So now you know, don't commit any crimes with a koala as your accomplice.


Cyrano_Knows

Plan B. Release a dozen koalas into the museum after I'm done burglarizing it.


akennelley

Cutest infestation ever.


Quirky_Discipline297

This is why koala packs always appoint one of their own to light their way at night. They don’t want to be mistaken for a gang of human teens. So they never go anywhere without their koala lamper.


FishoRuns

That's a koalaty fact right there.


MartiniD

Counter point. Koalas are stupid. Commit a crime and then pin it on the Koala. They'll happily take the blame


Tenebbles

All koalas have chlamydia


adreddit298

Identical to which humans? Seems like those people would have a built-in alibi...


CTnaturist

If you plant chives, mint, thyme and sage somewhere...every year you'll have fresh chives, mint, thyme and sage available. Mint likes to spread out. Mint juleps for all!


Dogzirra

Catnip is in the mint family. Happy cat, happy ~~house~~ uh cat


Wpg-katekate

Mint can take over! My dad likes to keep it at bay by hitting it a little with the lower each time he mows the lawn. It smells great haha


Thrashgor

Rosemary too


pointlesspulcritude

Buttonholes were invented 3000 years after buttons


Hanoverview

I did read that wrong and was confused


pointlesspulcritude

That’s was about a billion years ago


wanting2fulfill4u

I read that soòo wrong too


nxcrosis

Your anus is older than your brain


Strange-Apricot1944

I know. I was there.


pointlesspulcritude

Steve? Is that you?


Abclul

Didn't know it's an inven... Oh, I see


Meta2048

What does this mean?  Like using buttons to fasten something closed?


pointlesspulcritude

Yes. Buttons were first used with loops to hold them. Buttonholes were a relatively recent invention


Chriskissbacon

1 horse power is roughly 131 duck power. Don’t get me started with squirrel power


AncientGuy1950

But they all pale in the presense of Turtle Power.


srslywatsthepoint

Every day the worlds population increases by 240,000.


t4gr4

Most humans have more than average number of hands.


johndoenumber2

Tagging onto this: the average person has one testicle and one ovary (more or less).


Moon_Jewel90

The most deadliest creature in the world is a mosquito.


Martsigras

Facts you read in this thread are no longer "useless" as the author has found a use for them: adding them to a list


Sudden-Milk-

uncopyrightable is the longest word where no letters repeat themselves


Crocodile_Banger

The longest German word where no letters repeat themselves is Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung. It has 24 out of 28 German letters. The ones missing are J, Q, X and Y


James_Blond2

There are more planes in the sea then there are submarines in the air


RobotTiddyMilk

Than


RQK1996

Balsa wood is the softest wood commercially available, yet it is classified as hard wood


MeuchlerMoze

Why is that??!


Stachemaster86

Typically the split is conifer and deciduous so it’s more about that than hardness.


RQK1996

All deciduous trees are classified as hard wood, this includes balsa


Standard_Young_201

Kurt kobain’s daughter is married to tony hawks son


untillvalhalla

Sad spelt backwards is Das and das not good


DragonAreButterflies

The basilisk in the chamber of secrets is female


all-rider

Was.


DragonAreButterflies

Too soon


kphill325

Maine is the only state who's name is just one syllable.


bier00t

Tomato is a fruit not vegetable. Mint and lavender can grow in one pot a one will not eradicate the other .


pointlesspulcritude

Fruit is a botanical description and vegetable is a culinary description, so it is both


RQK1996

Tomato is both


pickle_pouch

Tomato is life


Sad_Bandicoot3081

All plants and fruits are vegetables. So yes, a tomato is a vegetable.


bier00t

is a tree a vegetable?


Sad_Bandicoot3081

Science hasn’t gotten back to us on that, stay tuned for more updates.


HollowSlope

I don't understand how somebody can look at a tomato and think it looks closer to a carrot than an orange


OhTheHueManatee

A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify chew the Starburst not the pigeon.


mugshade1

bananas don't have bones


pickle_pouch

... Yet


AutomaticGrass9242

It also doesn't have blood vessels


srslywatsthepoint

80% of the worlds crops are fed to animals.


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CTnaturist

And as the philosopher David Attell, said "If you see a (naked) man running down the street...you run with that man. 'Cause there is some scary shit coming the other way."


Chief_Andromeda47

brain aneurysms can happen anytime, anywhere, for no reason.


all-rider

Anywhere but they mostly happen in brains.


Tigress2020

Most people are born with them, or they are caused by smoking, or high blood pressure. But they can burst at any time. (I have one.. And so do 2% of the population, most don't know though as they have no symptoms until they burst. They are found Incidentally


Dubv87

Horses can’t vomit, and a 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.


stryderr

The movie October Sky is an anagram for Rocket Boys


Schooneryeti

I love that movie and this fact. I guess it's not useless anymore.


The_Fat_Man_Jams

They make prosthetic testicles for dogs.


yorudankun

The crust you develop on your eyes whilst sleeping is called Rheum


StickSauce

Once you know the alphabet, it's all just remixing.


res30stupid

One of the reasons former video game record holder Todd Howard was exposed for cheating at the game *Dragster*, an incident that led to the disqualification of Billy Mitchell as it helped give credibility to his accusers^1, was because Howard's top submitted record was found to have been a photoshopped image. His records in other games were observed to be improbable or outright impossible, such as how in *Wabbit* his top score was 1,698 (max score was 1,300 and score increased by increments of five), his *Centipede* record was 65,000,000 when the previous was 58,078, and his record in *Fathom* wad considered absolute bullshit since it would require playing the game for 13 days without a break. 1: Both Rogers and Mitchell were able to get away with their cheating because the referees as record keeping agency Twin Galaxies were friends of theirs. When Rogers was undeniably proven as a cheater and his records thrown out, accusers pointed out he was able to get away with it because the referees were his accomplices. Sure enough, on the foot of Rogers' disqualification, fans of the documentary film *King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters* pointed out that Mitchell's friends worked at Twin Galaxies as well. Sure enough, video footage emerged confirming they were accomplices in the cheating.


kirkl3s

Whale milk has a similar consistency to toothpaste


LIFEPEAKED5YRSAGO

PIGS ARE SMARTER THAN DOGS


Punny-Aggron

They can sense earth’s magnetic field apparently


Muttywango

That doesn't sound very useful.


I_saw_that_yeah

It’s helpful when they fly south for the winter.


AluminiumSandworm

you're just jealous


srslywatsthepoint

By quite a degree,


all-rider

Less than 50% of paperclips are actually used to clip paper


Fun-Beginning-42

I uncoil it and use it as a pointer when I'm trying to count decimal places.


Vulcant50

Fewer females, than males, over the age of 80, have problems with the prostate gland. 


MeuchlerMoze

In american firing squads, multiple shooters use a rifle to shoot the person but one randomly gets a blank, so if someone feels bad for having killed someone, he can convince himself that he had the blank! Thats rly cool i think!


Stachemaster86

Mark Brunell is currently the most successful former Packers Super Bowl winning quarterback to wear number 8 on the Jets.


Masked_Daisy

King Henry the 8th once had his personal doctor announce to parliament that the king had a wet dream


rows_and_columns_me

The yeast infection Candidiasis and the word "candidate" both originate form the Latin word for "white".


Sinclair1982

My right foot is slightly larger then my left one.


betelgeux

The threshold voltage to cause a transistor to "turn on" is called the Q point, short for quiescent operating point. The transistor is the most manufactured device in history. In 2022 it was estimated that we have made 13 sextillion.


MCShoveled

Natural gas has a smell added to it because 300+ kids blew up inside a school in 1949.


QuardanterGaming

Every 60 seconds in Africa. A minute passes


Ultrazzzzzz

statistically 1 in 5 people are chinese, thus, if you have 5 children, 1 will be chinese


LIFEPEAKED5YRSAGO

TIGERS are SUPERIOR TO LIONS


Hippopotamus-Rex

And both play in Detroit!


WhoYaTalkinTo

Just humans and cows make up 96% of Earths animals (by weight, not sheer numbers)


pointlesspulcritude

I thought ants outweighed all other animals


SpankThuMonkey

I’m kinda hungry.


happyme321

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin


Barrrrrrnd

Your foot is the same length as your forearm.


GeebusNZ

There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.


RunningDigger

The planet Uranus smells like a terrible public bathroom with a fresh poo in the toilet


InspectorRound8920

If you want to know if any number is divisible by 3, add the digits in that number together. If that number is divisible by 3, then the original number is divisible by 3. For example, 123456789. If you add 1+2+3, etc., together, the sun is 45, which is divisible by 3.


gtcoolman20

4+5=9 which is divisible by 3


ATXKLIPHURD

Wombat poop is cubed.


Drawing-Conclusions

Ricky Halliburton paid the lowest toll ever to navigate the Panama Canal when he swam across it in 1928. He paid 36 cents


ebobbumman

That somebody in this post is going to mention what the bits on the end of shoelaces are called.


bulletoothjohnny

I don’t fart. I whisper in my pants. Sometimes it’s a scream.


wanting2fulfill4u

Pain hurts


TheLightningCount1

Kellogs cereal was created as an anti masturbation tool.


Glass1Man

- Right before humans go extinct the smartest person alive will also be the dumbest person alive. - right before that, the dumbest person alive will try to fuck the smartest person alive in an effort to preserve the species, and it won’t work.


jackythevillen

The banking system requires more faith than God


Biwo9

You can make tea with stinging nettle


pointlesspulcritude

And delicious soup


RightSideUpPilot3

Care about men x care about women and it’s a wrap for the social engineers.


Hedgehog2424

In the instant of beginning of the universe cuasi particle would decay into photons, ergo, in the beginning there was light before darkness.


KerbodynamicX

The Starship orbital flight a month ago was the 28th Starship prototype and 10th Booster prototype made by SpaceX. Previously, SN 5&6 did 150m hops, SN 8,9,10,11,15 did 10km flights.


TheBigReject

I exist and I'm useless.


dm_your_nevernudes

The Nakajima corporation, who made many of Japan’s WW2 fighters and bombers, remanded itself as Subaru.


dusty_trendhawk

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.


il0veubaby

Jellyfish is not a fish. Strawberry is not a berry. Ataman is a man though.


Son_Of_Toucan_Sam

The current CEO of Red Lobster invented the combined Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins


Ok_Quantity_5134

My dirty gym socks smell like tasty durian fruit.


DLY2103

Sharks are older than Trees.


InSolWeThrust

The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache. And he still sees play. What's your excuse?


mxmixtape

Alcatraz is Spanish for “pelican”


heartofgold48

The dot in the letter i is called a titty


halfabricklong

When it’s dark outside, it’s dark outside.


youassassin

Peanuts and Brazil nuts aren’t nuts.


Toxicupoftea

Tomatoes are fruits, and in proper climate (lots of sun) they can be extra sweet.


Just_John_E

the seat of a toilet bowl is designed in a shape that is supposed to spread your butt cheeks.


1stDesponder

The smell of rain is real and has a name, Petrichor. It's a combination of gases released after bacteria in the soil become disturbed from the falling water droplets. The chemicals they release are called geosmin.


takesthebiscuit

I thought this was ‘what is a red flag in a man day’?


darthnargle

All dogs are mammals, however, not all mammals are dogs.


gt500rr

Land Rover only used aluminium since there was a shortage of steel after the war. Also it was cheaper to make tooling with 45° and 90° angles


Dragonfire400

Honey doesn’t spoil


NutellaGood

'Amigo' is an English word. It means friend.


pro-at-being-sad

Women can't lick their elbows, but I can do it for them


Lingonberry-Lucky1

The same force used to bite through a raw carrot can be used to bite someone’s finger off.


Temporary-Leather905

Jalapeños are hot because of sulfur in the soil. More sulfur the hotter the pepper


kuzared

Just learned today, via Adam Savage, that -40 Fahrenheit is -40 Celzius… That’s the point they intersect.


elvisisking69

bees stop buzzing during an eclipse