#strangefacts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #strangefacts, aggregated by home.social.
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Researchers once found a whole rattlesnake in a 1500-year-old fossilised human poo. They think it was probably eaten as some kind of ritual rather than just a regular dinner. #strangefacts #science #humans #snakes
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #78: Happy New Year! #Takanakuy
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Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takanakuy
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#happynewyear #newyear #tradition #traditions #culture #cultures #peru #cuzco #southamerica #funfacts #themoreyouknow #didyouknow #facts #strangefacts #bizarre #butwhytho #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #cartoons #fightclub #uselsssfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
J. B. S. Haldane once observed: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we CAN suppose.”
And Haldane hadn't even HEARD of Mastodon and the Fediverse!
And THAT'S not queer at all, because he died before the Fediverse was born, and that's just how history works.
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Why would a robot's only job be to monitor a bonsai tree? 🤯
In a world of complex tech, this robot had a single, surprising purpose: to meticulously observe a plant's growth in 3D. This bizarre and fascinating project from the 1990s proves that the most advanced technology can be built for the most unexpected reasons.
https://factovate.com/why-is-this-robots-only-job-to-monitor-a-bonsai-tree
#TechFacts #Robotics #Bonsai #Science #StrangeFacts #DidYouKnow #AI #Futuristic #Technology #Factovate #MindBlown
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It's a little tricky to see but interestingly (not sure that's the right word here but it's what I'm going with!) one of the "cobblestones' in our courtyard appears to be a piece of gravestone. Not sure what the story is, perhaps it simply broke before it was finished, or had a typo, or whatever the engraving equivalent is, a chisleo??
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Researchers once found a whole rattlesnake in a 1500-year-old fossilised human poo. They think it was probably eaten as some kind of ritual rather than just a regular dinner. #strangefacts #odd #rattlesnakes #archaeology
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #353: New Zealand's wizard.
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#newzealand #nz #wizards #strangebuttrue #wtf #butwhytho #facts #funfacts #strangefacts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Some new pretty pictures of planet Uranus just dropped. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-150 and thanks to some internet stranger I learned that on average the closest planet to Uranus is ... Mercury?! Statistics are strange. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/30593/Venus-is-not-Earth-s-closest-neighbor
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #322: John Cummings.
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#medical #history #strangebuttrue #hobbies #wtf #butwhytho #braggingrights #swordswallowing #bizarre #funfacts #facts #darwinaward #naturalselection #strangefacts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #321: Douglas Crofut.
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#radiation #radiationaccidents #iaea #radiationpoisoning #strangebuttrue #wtf #butwhytho #facts #funfacts #strangefacts #radiography #oshaviolations #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn