Little known facts

[Kulindahr]

Each year, Americans buy enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Kulindahr]

Public drinking fountains were introduced as a way to keep men from going to pubs and bars to drink.

 

[Kulindahr]

Bargain stores were first opened by high-class department stores in order to keep the lower classes away from the "right people".

 

[gsdx]

Ray Kroc's solution to Lent was a McDonald's Hula Burger - a grilled slice of pineapple on a bun with 2 slices of processed cheese. It was soon replaced with the Filet-O-Fish.

 

[belamyi]

Little known WTFs..?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...b99782-46d8-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html

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Guess it has been referred to before...

 

[Kulindahr]

Cremations in the U.S. emit a staggering 600 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually.

 

[Kulindahr]

When Oregon joined the union, it joined not as a free state or a slave state, but as a no-blacks state, the only state to do so -- before becoming a state in 1859, it passed laws that prohibited slavery but also required all African Americans to leave the territory.

 

[belamyi]

^ Oh, you read it too

 

[Outlooker]

The first person to be shot from a cannon was Rossa Matilda Richter, who used the stage name Zazel. The stunt was done at the Royal Aquarium in London on April 2, 1877, when she was 14 years old, and it created a sensation. The cannon was fitted with a spring mechanism, not gunpowder, and Zazel went on to soar through the air over 1,000 times. Her final shoot was in 1891, when equipment malfunctioned, causing her to break her back. She survived but retired from performing.

 

[belamyi]

Cremations in the U.S. emit a staggering 600 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually.

What would be the result of that in a thermonuclear war, the sort that fucked up part of our childhoods before stupid spoilt gretas were even a gleam in anyone's mind?

 

[Alistair]

Cremations in the U.S. emit a staggering 600 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually.

Matthews estimates that one cremation produces an average of 534.6 pounds of carbon dioxide. Given this figure, Seyler estimates that cremations in the U.S. account for about 360,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions each year.Nov 5, 2019

https://www.nationalgeographic.com

The environmental toll of cremating the dead - National Geographic


My thought: Maybe we should burn people as fuel for energy plants

 

[belamyi]

The first person to be shot from a cannon was Rossa Matilda Richter, who used the stage name Zazel. The stunt was done at the Royal Aquarium in London on April 2, 1877, when she was 14 years old, and it created a sensation. The cannon was fitted with a spring mechanism, not gunpowder, and Zazel went on to soar through the air over 1,000 times. Her final shoot was in 1891, when equipment malfunctioned, causing her to break her back. She survived but retired from performing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter

 

[Kulindahr]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com

The environmental toll of cremating the dead - National Geographic


My thought: Maybe we should burn people as fuel for energy plants

Takes more energy to burn a human body than you get from it. The better course is composting, turning corpses into soil. I think it's only legal in three states do far, though.

 

[belamyi]

https://news.mit.edu/2021/neurons-humans-mammals-1110

 

[Alistair]

Takes more energy to burn a human body than you get from it. The better course is composting, turning corpses into soil. I think it's only legal in three states do far, though.

In a crematorium. I’m thinking of just throwing them in with the garbage we’re already burning.

 

[belamyi]

^ That would not change the fact that a human body needs more energy to be burnt than most other average crap. If you want to get rid of human corpses, the easiest, less costly and most ecological ways are the old ones of just burying them, or leaving them to the hungry on earth, in the sea or from the air to dispose of them.

 

[Alistair]

^ you’re already using the energy to burn the other garbage. Throwing in bodies wouldn’t increase the amount of energy used

 

[belamyi]

^ you’re already using the energy to burn the other garbage. Throwing in bodies wouldn’t increase the amount of energy used

The energy necessary to burn paper down to ashes is not the same to the one needed to do the same with a human corpse


I had written my post above in perfectly unbroken, Simple English : throwing people along with garbage is not exactly the same as burning them together... at least not outside certain people's lazy minds.

Maybe if you had specified the sort of burning you would use like, say, a nuclear bomb, well, yes, then it all goes down together at the same time, with the same efficient cost.


Thenit would be interesting to know if you would just leave all that filthy dust to pollute the air, or use more energy to create something else, for example, diamonds or whatever

 

[Alistair]

The energy necessary to burn paper down to ashes is not the same to the one needed to do the same with a human corpse


I had written my post above in perfectly unbroken, Simple English : throwing people along with garbage is not exactly the same as burning them together... at least not outside certain people's lazy minds.

Watch a video on burning trash to create energy. They’re not just lighting it and letting it go. They superheat the garbage to a point where there is virtually nothing left.