Little known facts

[Kulindahr]

McDonalds arches aren't always golden....

 

[Kyanimal]

It's dismissable sensasionalistic "journalism" to say that deer kill humans. If some unqualified primate chooses to pilot him/herself at high speed into a stationary object, he or she is their own cause of death.

The deer bound onto the road. You don't see them until it's too late, especially when it's dark, but in the daytime, too. Suddenly, they're just THERE! (I live in Wisconsin. There are deer Everywhere!)

One friend managed to swerve (instinctively) in time to miss one. Had the semi truck, coming the other way, been any closer, he would have been crushed by the truck. Luckily, he was able to get back into his own lane just in time.

Another friend was driving his brand new car when the air bag went off in his face. He managed to keep his wits about him long enough to stop the car. He'd hit a deer he hadn't even seen. His car was totaled.

Another friend hit a deer on his way home from work. He was riding his motorcycle. He didn't survive.

 

[belamyi]

McDonalds arches aren't always golden....

Those sites serve the Tiffany menu, and only serve to Tiffany-rated costumers.

 

[Kulindahr]

The deer bound onto the road. You don't see them until it's too late, especially when it's dark, but in the daytime, too. Suddenly, they're just THERE! (I live in Wisconsin. There are deer Everywhere!)

Wisconsin of course has white-tails, Colorado has black-tails. As of around 1985 both states had populations densities in some areas of over thirty deer per square mile, which is kind of extreme -- "deer Everywhere!" is a good way to describe it. Another way is how my insurance agent in Colorado put it: on that one stretch of road that I drove so often, roughly one in forty vehicle trips had a collision with a deer!

Another friend hit a deer on his way home from work. He was riding his motorcycle. He didn't survive.

Ouch. Where I was in Colorado, you had to be definitely upper class economically to afford deer collision coverage for a motorcycle; my insurance agent and another one pointed out that for the cost of such coverage for one motorcycle you could insure four or five cars.

 

[Kulindahr]

Those sites serve the Tiffany menu, and only serve to Tiffany-rated costumers.

LOL

Actually it's because the 'golden' arches don't fit the community building requirements -- everything's supposed to blend with the natural colors. There's an exception for flags, which as you can see this McD's took advantage of.

 

[Kulindahr]

This is crazy: during a twenty-five minute period today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission received over 45,000 reports of fraud using electronic communications!

 

[Kulindahr]

During the 18th century, the first chess player machine was created, they called it "The Turk".

This machine was so slick, it managed to beat figures like Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin, and not only did it beat them, everyone it played against was quickly defeated.

The machine played in such a way that it was even suspicious.

But, it was not until after a century, that the son, of the person who created this machine, ended up confessing that in reality the reason why "The Turk" was so skillful, is because inside there was a hidden chess master.

That is, the machine did not work by itself, inside it, there was a man hidden inside moving the pieces.

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from Alessandro Alin on Quora.

 

[Kulindahr]

In 1966, the Soviets used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.

The fire started in 1963 in Uzbekistan, and no effort had been able to put it out. It was realized that the only way to put it out was to cut off the air supply, but no surface explosion to do that would be safe. So they drilled in from the side...

going over a kilometer deep and less than fifty meters from the gas bore hole. A 30 kiloton nuclear bomb was lowered down the new bore, a cap placed just above the bomb, and then the bore above it filled with concrete. Once the area was evacuated and the concrete set, with emergency services prepped just in case, they started the timer and backed off.

It worked.

 

[belamyi]

LOL

Actually it's because the 'golden' arches don't fit the community building requirements -- everything's supposed to blend with the natural colors.

Don't you think the problem with "bright golden" on whatever sort of ocre is that is rather the contrary, namely, standing out...

 

[Alistair]

 

[Kulindahr]

I guess I should stop complaining that their range has increased to cover where I live -- it didn't when I was a kid.

 

[belamyi]

^ Ali's finally getting bored of cats: opossums are his next victims, and our next JUB pest nightmare.

 

[Alistair]

^ Ali's finally getting bored of cats: opossums are his next victims, and our next JUB pest nightmare.

Little known fact: I only post the cats to annoy you. When you stop complaining about them, I’ll stop posting

 

[belamyi]

^ Obvious fact: I really don't give a fuck about your ersatzs

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Ali's finally getting bored of cats: opossums are his next victims, and our next JUB pest nightmare.

 

[Araucaria]

I have opossums living around my house. A couple of years ago one decided to take up residence in my utility room, and bared his fearsome-looking teeth at me once. Other than being in the way of items I needed to get to, I really didn't mind him being there too much. There was another time I heard noise in my Sabal palmetto tree at night, and when I shone my flashlight, there was an opossum up there eating palmetto berries. I occasionally see them in my yard, probably one of the myriad animals that love feeding on my mangos when they're in season.

 

[gsdx]

The boot that Charlie Chaplin boiled and ate in 'The Gold Rush' was made of licorice, including the laces.

 

[belamyi]

The BCN Olympics foreboded the pandemic thirty years before it happened.

 

[Alistair]

95% percent of our body’s serotonin is produced by bacteria in our digestive system. Our brain counts for only 5% of production.

 

[belamyi]

Some cats are actually allergic to humans.

Though it's uncommon—since humans bathe more than your typical animal, and don't shed as much hair or skin—some animals can still be allergic to humans, according to Popular Science. (However, it's more often because of the perfume or cologne we wear, or the soap we use.)


Think about it next time you complain about your furry meowy bitch.