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Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Rankenphile
Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
this is a great book that basically ruined me
ever since I was a kid and I read this book, I became absolutely fascinated by the mundane, the everyday, the commonplace and the overlooked
like the fact that the current QWERTY keyboard system was devised to be the most difficult system to master and is in fact designed to hinder typing speed, so that the typebars on a typewriter wouldn't get jammed when various secretaries or other typists would be going so fast that they couldn't retract before the next one came down on top of them
or that superglue was originally invented as a form of absorbable liquid sutures to be used by surgeons to "stitch" you back up inside to prevent follow-up surgery to remove stitches left inside the body. It has a tendency to irritate the skin, but during the vietnam war an inventor came up with a superglue (cyanocrylate) spray to help retard bleeding in soldiers wounded in the field. It wasn't until 1988, however, that the FDA approved a version of superglue for use on human skin, although any modeler will tell you that shit works like a goddamn charm on human skin.
so what sort of completely mundane and potentially useless facts about shit do you know
huh, tough guy? what makes you so damn smart?
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that is the shit that makes me go
"huh. neat"
which is a particular feeling I am partial to
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how the fuck
WHO DISCOVERED THIS
Still, I feel justified finding the taste of fanta gross considering it was made for Nazi Germany.
I too am a huge fan of useless trivia
I need to get the next gyrocopter to the consulate in siam!
it varies depending on how pedantic you want to get, but
touch
sight
hearing
taste
smell
sense of hot/cold (thermoception)
proprioception (you can tell where your body parts are even when you can't see them)
my grandad has a goddamn tower of these things
I've read like three and a half
but man I sure do love me some useless trivia
Someone noticed that statistically cats were more likely to survive a fall from higher than three floors because they have time to right themselves.
AND they can very quickly rotate so that they are facing the right way up. You have to throw a cat a very special way to do major damage to it.
How it's made is such a great TV show, I really enjoy watching machines doing mundane repetitive tasks and thinking 'haha fuck you now I don't have to do that'
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every time I see that shit all I can think is, "man, somebody had to go and invent a hockey puck making machine" and it just blows my mind
How It's Made is the best goddamn show to watch when you are sick
god it is soothing
it is basically television codiene
they were aces cool
The Earth has only one natural satellite- Luna
Cruithne is actually in orbit around the Sun
the disc was given for free, but it was a quarter for the string
Later, Wham-O acquired the rights and named it a frisbee, but prior it was called "flying cake pan", "pluto platter" and "flyin' saucers" by it's inventor Walter Morrison
fixed
I have at one point or another watched every damn episode of this show
I miss the old narrator
then learn a fucking skill
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my god
cats
Tumblr blargh
D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:
all the way down
YES YES
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
if that means you gotta chuck a couple dozen cats out the back of an airplane and counting the results, well then far be it from me to be the Luddite motherfucker who says it is cruel and unusual methodology
you think it is, well, I reckon it's about time you got your babymaker back in the kitchen and started making the men their lunch, Susie
I said he was talkin' crazy and that he should brush his goddamn hair and that a job's a job.
These days it looks like the machines don't need us for arms and legs no more.
These days I'm doing a lot of sitting. And thinking.
Thinking about Karl, mostly.
And that is why I'm getting a degree in physics: Finding out new things that people can then make machines to do.
And more specifically exists as a mixture of the three no matter what.
Yeah, Ford was a pretty fucking awful person in many many ways when you think about it.
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