Random factoids you can't help but remember

[The Blaatschapen]

Michael Lotito took two years to eat an entire plane (a Cessna 150) and therefore holds or held a Guinness record for world’s strangest diet. He was handed a plaque for it, which he promptly ate too.

How is that strange? It's gluten free.

[Atovia Major]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

It is Caligula. Not that surprising tbh.

Yeah

[Xmara]

(Image)

Looks like a cross between a platypus and a lemur

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Michael Lotito took two years to eat an entire plane (a Cessna 150) and therefore holds or held a Guinness record for world’s strangest diet. He was handed a plaque for it, which he promptly ate too.

How is that strange? It's gluten free.

I see you’ve devolved into a goat.

[New Legland]

An oboe used to be called a hautbois.

[San Carlos Islands]

The U.S. Navy is the world's second largest Airforce (behind the USAF)

[Little Tin Hat]

It is Caligula. Not that surprising tbh.

Yeah

If I remember right his haul of treasure from this venture was seashells which the centurions collected. They must have been well happy with their share of the spoils.

[New Legland]

The U.S. Navy is the world's second largest Airforce (behind the USAF)

Pathetic. We need more funding.

[Farnhamia]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

I want to read a book or see a movie where Caligula announces his war on Neptune, and it just so happens that aliens from the planet Neptune are listening in and think that Earth wants to wage war with them. Imagine ancient warriors fighting off UFOs armed with lasers yet somehow defeating them.

I have an overactive imagination.

It's not exactly that but you might find Poul Anderson's The High Crusade amusing.

Oh, yeah, spoiler alert, the Wiki article does give away the plot.

[Sycar]

Texas is home to three of the ten most populous cities in the US. The towns are Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas.

[Bluelight-R006]

The Quagga is an animal that became extinct in the 1880’s.

[Farnhamia]

The Quagga is an animal that became extinct in the 1880’s.

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

[Bluelight-R006]

The Quagga is an animal that became extinct in the 1880’s.

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

Oh... so that’s what the photos on the internet I found was. Very interesting. The Quagga was the first animal I’ve known as a child that became extinct. It has become my favourite animal since.

[Farnhamia]

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

Oh... so that’s what the photos on the internet I found was. Very interesting. The Quagga was the first animal I’ve known as a child that became extinct. It has become my favourite animal since.

And now it lives again.

[Bluelight-R006]

Oh... so that’s what the photos on the internet I found was. Very interesting. The Quagga was the first animal I’ve known as a child that became extinct. It has become my favourite animal since.

And now it lives again.

Hoorah! Long live the quagga!

---

Another random fact: the New York Subway has 424 stations.

[Farnhamia]

And now it lives again.

Hoorah! Long live the quagga!

---

Another random fact: the New York Subway has 424 stations.

Huzzah!

There was talk of doing the same thing with mammoths, using DNA from frozen specimens. I haven't heard about that in a while, though.

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

There is a (gold) mining town in the tropics in the Southern hemisphere where the temperature almost always drops below the freezing point of water. Its elevation is comparable to many bases on Everest. The stench of mercury there is horrible.

Gallium is...

one of the few metals which are liquid in elemental form at rooms temperatures under one bar of atmospheric pressure.
another substance which expands when it freezes I really wish I had the courage to tell this to a past science teacher who claimed that water was the only substance which did, and used that as proof of God.
capable of diffusing into aluminium and weakening it to the point of it feeling like wet card-stock or weaker.

Jeopardy has banned players from wagering sixty-nine dollars for final Jeopardy.

It is probable that neutering can extend the life of not only dogs but also humans.

[Bluelight-R006]

Hoorah! Long live the quagga!

---

Another random fact: the New York Subway has 424 stations.

Huzzah!

There was talk of doing the same thing with mammoths, using DNA from frozen specimens. I haven't heard about that in a while, though.

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

Huzzah!

There was talk of doing the same thing with mammoths, using DNA from frozen specimens. I haven't heard about that in a while, though.

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

...So that's why we cannot clone humans?

[Farnhamia]

Huzzah!

There was talk of doing the same thing with mammoths, using DNA from frozen specimens. I haven't heard about that in a while, though.

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

Well, yes, but some predators are necessary. Killing them all just let the grass-eaters run wild. The white-tailed deer in the eastern US has no predators except the automobile.

[Bluelight-R006]

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

...So that's why we cannot clone humans?

Hah. Good one.

Very interesting... I just hope we don’t get ahead of ourselves and recreate animals that are known to be wild beasts and killers.

Well, yes, but some predators are necessary. Killing them all just let the grass-eaters run wild. The white-tailed deer in the eastern US has no predators except the automobile.

I agree. Not to say we kill all the predators, but the food chain has to keep going on, so there’s must be some predators to kill animals, though not kill us, that’s what I meant.

[Rezmaeristan]

I just thought about Tarrare, the hungriest man in history. In case you haven't heard of him, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc

[Farnhamia]

I just thought about Tarrare, the hungriest man in history. In case you haven't heard of him, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc

"The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them."

[Bluelight-R006]

I just thought about Tarrare, the hungriest man in history. In case you haven't heard of him, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc

He’s got to have diabetes. That’s all I can think about.

[Farnhamia]

I just thought about Tarrare, the hungriest man in history. In case you haven't heard of him, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc

He’s got to have diabetes. That’s all I can think about.

Maybe. Some people think hyperthyroidism, too, which can increase your appetite tremendously.