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| Mammals come in two major groups: monotremes (platypus and echidna) and placentals (all other mammals).
| The spell card "Pot of Greed" allows its user to draw 2 cards from the top of their deck and add them to their hand.
| Despite the best efforts of medicine and science, world mortality rate remains 100%
| lobsters don't die of old age, they die by being squished inside their shells
| If you were to stack elephants one on top of the other until they reached the moon, the elephants on the bottom would die.
| 'static' keyword in C++ have 3 distinct meanings in different contexts.
| About 99% of German Shepherds are dogs.
The remaining are actually shepherds in Germany.
| 100% of people who drink water eventually die
| Everyone who is on this board will die
| Ghosts are real.
| Emergence is the quality of many small stupid things gathering in a large group to do something smart.
Ex. A colony of ants forming a complex hive and an efficient system of roles amongst it's members.
| The infamous study which found that "Yellow 5" food coloring in Mountain Dew reduced sperm count turns out to be false. To date, Yellow 5 has not been linked to any health defects, although there is a suspicion that it may cause hyperactivity in developing children.
| Colloidal silver won't actually kill you, but it won't give you any health benefits except to gradually and irreparably turn your skin blue, until you're a blue colored human being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
| The little pieces of plastic or monofilament on the tips of your shoelaces are called "aglets."
| Drinks bottled in glass "taste better" partly due to the glass itself. Unlike plastic and aluminum, glass does not "leech" any flavor into the drink, giving the taste of the drink a "purer" flavor.
| Sharks, like newborn children, rely on their sense of taste, teeth, and tongue in order to explore the world around them. To this end, they tend to bite people less out of hostility, and more out of curiosity.
| A man recently took advantage of the GDPR to request a transcript of most, not all, of his expenditures in one of the recent FIFA ULTIMATE console games (FIFA 17) from Electronic Arts. EA only complied with part of the request, using legal language to get out of supplying everything on the man's record, and then admitting to doing so.
Even without the extra information, the man was shocked to discover he had spent well over 10,000+ USD on the game, in 2 years.
| A single spelling error in Aliens: Colonial Marines was responsible for the terribad NPC AI, and upon correction, increased the AI's behavior to something approaching scary.
| Many of the "dark web" sites are easily accessible to the average person so long as they're willing to follow directions. They use .onion sites which can only be accessed with TOR. However, many of these websites also require account registration, and only do business with bitcoin or an equivalent. The ease of which this is accomplished suggests that law enforcement may be hiding among the other buyers- assuming that said websites are not honeypots in of themselves.
| Bitcoin is not an anonymous currency in the slightest.
| MSG is not actually bad for you, and is found naturally occurring in tomatoes. The reason tomatoes are often pared with certain foods is because the MSG, or monosodium glutamate within it "excites" taste buds, increasing the "flavor" of food.
| You can increase the sweetness of certain fruits or the spiciness of certain peppers by using controlled watering. The less water these plants are given, the sweeter or spicier they become.
...don't kill your plants by mistake.
| Canola oil is a great example of a genetically modified product. It is not possible to have Canola oil that is "GMO FREE." This is because Canola oil is made from Rapeseed oil, a plant that is not normally edible. The plant was genetically modified to become the product you know of today.
This is also why canola-based products are unpalatable to some people, to the point of severe allergic reactions.
| During the Edo period Daimyo and shoguns of Japan would take wakashuu, feminine male, mistresses.
| Modern day corn is also a genetically modified crop, although it took place over the course of many decades/centuries, through the careful cross-polination by pre-Columbus era Native Americans.
Original, "undomesticated" Maize is actually very small- like the size of a thumb- and of questionable edibility.
| Danger/u/'s staff has a community manager for a FPS game, an ex-journalist, and several programmers among its entourage. They are spread out across the entire world, although the majority of them reside in Russia, the US, and the EU.
| The largest asian traffic to danger/u/ consists of Indonesians, Filipinos, Singaporeans, and everyone else, in that order. Unless that changed recently.
| Danger/u/'s existence is actually blessed by Sukeban in writing. This was necessary to ensure a return to the play store, after a former dev tried to kill the website.
| /cyb/ wasn't always a roleplay board. It was originally a cyberpunk themed board, like /lain/, with users occasionally posting in character. After a large number of roleplayers began to use the board, /cyb/ was split into two snakes, /cyb/ and /lain/.
| VA-11, Hall-a was developed by two people and a single composer.
| William S. Gibson, author of Neuromancer and grandfather of modern day "cyberpunk," had never used or seen the Internet before writing his famous novel. His description of "the Matrix" was based on the internet being described to him by someone else.
| Everyone has a skeleton, even those with a fear of skeletons
| "The Matrix" film by the Wachowski Brothers was largely inspired by Ghost in the Shell. While pitching the movie to a producer, the Brothers showed the producer Ghost in the Shell, and reportedly said, "We want to make this."
| The g/u/rl writing these bloody facts is bored as shit but hopes that other g/u/rls found some of these facts interesting.
| The prolitariat has nothing to lose than its chains.
| In the US civil war, Lee's troops retreated from the final day of Gettysburg almost simultaneously as Grant seized Vicksburg hundreds of miles away on the Mississippi River.
| >>393208
They also required the actors to read the book "Simulacra and Simulation".
The TL;DR of that book is that we cannot intuitively discern "reality" from a simulation of it. Same idea was tested in that famous Stanford Prison Experiment from 1971.
Info:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
| 3+ billion devices run Java
| "Salary" was derived from the word "salarum", the Roman word for the amount of salt given to soldiers that is equivalent to present day wages.
| Mealworms and superworms are hypothesised to have bacteria in their intestinal tract that could break down stryform and could sustain themselves on stryform and water alone. Experiments are currently conducted to attempt breakdown of other plastics.
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| Since 100 grams of celery gives you 16 calories, and a stalk of celery is on average about 60 grams, in order to survive only eating celery you'd have to eat at least 100 stalks a day
| Turtles can swim
| You WILL die.
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| By the 2077 the world will enter a new age and be nuked
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| >>393789
I'm gonna live until friendly ASI is invented. Then acquire immortality. Succ that, sicc bastard.
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| >>393789 guys wtf, i get notifications about replies to a post that i didnt write, i didnt even know about this thread but now i get notifications about it
| >>394245
U must b posting in this thread in ur sleep. I bet u is one of them sleep walkers, aren't l ain't u? Come on, admit it, u dirty nasty pig gurl.
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| Anything at all. Like, any real piece of knowledge.